PR-1124UK Original Spelling Workbook Teachers Guide - Book D

Book D 

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My Spelling Workbook Book D – Teachers Guide 

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This multisensory spelling series introduces strategies that feature Look, Say, Cover, 

Write and Check which promote independent learning of spelling in context. 

The series features a proven metacognitive approach to spelling. The metacognitive 

approach encompasses logical and systematic thinking, combined with the skills of 

visualisation, emotion and creativity. Through using all aspects of thinking, children not 

only learn how to spell but also learn how to retain and use these words in context. 

Success with this series is achieved through the reinforcement activities provided in 

the My Spelling Workbook series. These workbooks cover the strategies in a fun, creative 

way ensuring that both the child and the teacher enjoy the learning process. 

The teachers guides provide the metacognitive strategies. These are clearly outlined using flash cards, assessment 

sheets, extra activities, guidelines for use with children with special needs, extension activities for more able 

children, dictation, word lists and answers. 

Each workbook contains 18 lists of commonly used words to develop a base vocabulary for primary school 

children. These help to develop independent spellers through a variety of activities including: 

• word building; • memory tests; • word study; 

• word puzzles; and • discovering patterns in words. 

Books in the My Spelling Workbook series are: 

• Book A – Senior Infant Class • Book B – 1st Class 

• Book C – 2nd Class • Book D – 3rd Class 

• Book E – 4th Class • Book F – 5th Class 

• Book G – 6th Class 

Teacher Information ..........................................................ii – iv 

Curriculum Links .........................................................................1 

Timetable – a suggested timetable that can be adapted 

to suit different class needs. 

Spelling Timetable .....................................................................2 

Blank Timetable ...........................................................................3 

Metacognitive approach resources – an approach which 

encourages children to become successful independent 

spellers and thinkers. 

Teachers Notes .....................................................................4 – 5 

Question Type Charts ...................................................... 6 – 13 

Core photocopiable resources – a range of resources 

which can be used regularly throughout a spelling 

programme. 

Word Building ........................................................................... 14 

Spelling Partners ...................................................................... 15 

List Words (Book D) ........................................................16 – 17 

Supplementary resources – extra ideas to support a 

spelling programme, covering a range of ability levels. 

Additional Activities ......................................................18 – 23 

Children with Special Needs ......................................24 – 25 

New Words ................................................................................. 26 

Spelling Extension ................................................................... 27 

C ontents 

Incentives – photocopiable games to encourage better 

spelling and certificates to reward progress. 

Spelling Games ................................................................28 – 30 

Certificates ................................................................................. 31 

Assessment – photocopiable worksheets for recording of 

results by teachers/children. 

Teachers Notes ......................................................................... 32 

Pre-test/Post-test Template ................................................. 33 

Individual Word Checklist ............................................34 – 36 

Anecdotal Records .................................................................. 37 

Test Checklist............................................................................. 38 

Teachers Notes for each unit – a separate page for each 

unit, providing list focus, dictation, word building, 

additional activities and answers. 

Unit 1 – 18 .........................................................................39 – 56 

List Words (whole series) .............................................57 – 63 


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Each workbook contains 18 spelling units. Each unit is made up of four pages, with each unit containing: 

• a list of 22 words to be learned; 

• space for additional words to be added; 

• word building and word study activities; and 

• revision words from the previous workbook. 

The first page of each unit contains the list words. Before 

the children see the list, it is recommended that the 

words are pre-tested. This can be used as a benchmark for 

Each list has a series of test columns. 

how well the children learn the list or which words they 

Three ticks in a row indicate that the 

need to focus on throughout the unit. 

word has been learned. If three 

successive ticks are not achieved, a ‘T’ 

is placed in the transfer box and the 

word is written in ‘Difficult Words I 

Have Found’ in the next unit. 

A post-test is then required at the 

conclusion of the two-week 

programme to evaluate the 

children’s progress. Problem words 

are recorded and transferred, ready 

for their personal list in the next unit. 

Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check – 

This represents the basic method 

recommended for word learning. 

Children should follow this 

multisensory process when learning 

each word. It is a proven method of 

retaining a word in the memory and 

should be a procedure that is 

followed consistently, to assist with 

the learning of further words. 

Look at the word. 

Look for words within words. 

Look at the shape of the word. 

Cover the word. (A time factor can 

be built into this part. Test after one 

minute, 10 minutes, one hour, the 

next day etc.) 

Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check 

As well as for transferring 

difficult words from a 

previous unit, ‘Difficult Words I 

Have Found’ can also be used 

to list other words of interest. 

These words can be partner 

tested during the spelling 

programme. 

Say each letter aloud: either as its letter 

name or sound. 


Look 

Cover 

Say 

Write the spelling word. 

Write 

Check 

Check the word with the original. 

Page iv provides a poster which can be displayed in the classroom. 

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Each unit contains word building and word study activities. 

A bank of activities is used throughout the book, including: 

• unjumbling words; • word worms; 

• finding small words; • crosswords; 

• word searches; • synonyms; 

• antonyms; and many more. 

The second page of each unit 

includes further word study 

activities to be done in the 

child’s spelling pad. Their aim 

is to provide children with 

several opportunities to write 

the list words and to use them 

in various ways. These 

activities can be used with any 

of the units in the book. 

A word building template is 

found on page 14 of this book. 

This can be used for each unit of 

words. Word building examples 

for every list word are found on 

pages 39 – 56 of this book. 

The unit list is also repeated 

for further reference on the 

third page of each unit, along 

with a revision list of words 

from the previous level of 

My Spelling Workbook. 

It is recommended that 

revision tests are used on a 

regular basis to ensure 

previous list words are kept 

current in the child’s memory. 


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For every spelling list, remember to: 

Look 

Cover 

Say 


Write 

Check 

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All children need to attain, progressively, mastery of conventional spelling. The revised English Language 

curriculum states that this mastery is most likely to be achieved if spelling is taught systematically, using a 

whole-school multi-dimensional approach, used consistently in each class. 

The popular My Spelling Workbook series has been revised and provides the ideal multi-dimensional approach to 

spelling for infant through to sixth class pupils. The revised English Language curriculum for Ireland states that 

pupils should have opportunities to develop the ability to: 

Spelling 

Workbook 

Book 

A 

B and C 

D and E 

Class 

Infants 

1st and 2nd 

3rd and 4th 

Strand 

Competence 

and 

confidence in 

using 

language 

Competence 

and 

confidence in 

using 

language 

Competence 

and 

confidence in 

using 

language 

Strand Unit 

Writing 

Writing 

Writing 

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Content Objectives 

• copy letters and words informally as part 

of class activities 

• write letters and words from memory 

• develop the confidence to use 

approximate spelling 

• begin to develop conventional spelling of 

simple words 

• spell words in a recognisable way 

based on an awareness of the most 

common spelling strings and patterns; 

• simple words with short vowel rimes: dog, 

mill, rock 

• simple words with regular patterns: street, 

came, afloat 

• two-syllable words with regular patterns: 

robber, happen 

• words with common prefixes and suffixes: 

disconnect, wonderful 

• spell correctly a range of familiar, 

important and regularly occurring 

words. 

• use a range of aids and strategies to 

improve his/her command of spelling; 

• word lists, word searches, anagrams, 

regular word patterns 

inks 


F and G 

5th and 6th 

Competence 

and 

confidence in 

using 

language 

Writing 

• observe the conventions of spelling 

• use dictionaries to extend and develop 

vocabulary and spelling 

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Teachers can use the activities in My Spelling Workbook to suit the needs of their class and the amount of time 

available for spelling. 

A 10-day spelling programme for each list is suggested below, as a way of using this workbook. It allows for 25 

minutes each day, which could be a combination of class work and homework. Teachers may wish to add or 

delete from this timetable, according to their needs. 

This timetable is based on a metacognitive approach, which is explained in detail on the following pages. Daily 

partner testing is a key feature of the timetable, allowing children to practise 3 – 5 list words at a time. A 

worksheet for recording partner test results is provided on page 15. 

DAY ONE 

• Pre-test list and introduce words using 

metacognition strategies 

• Use Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check to 

practise writing words from memory 

• Transfer any words from the previous list to 

‘Difficult Words I Have Found’ 

• Begin crossword 

• Partner test 1 (3 – 5 words) (see page 15) 

DAY TWO 

• Partner test 2 (3 – 5 words) 

• Spelling game or activity (see pages 28 – 30) 

• Revise the patterns for this list 

• Complete page 2 activities 

• Begin to make list of ‘Difficult Words I Have 

Found’ 

DAY THREE 

• Complete a partner activity (see pages 20 – 23) 

• Complete Additional Activities 

• Begin page 3 activities 

• Partner test 3 (‘Difficult Words I Have Found’) 

DAY FOUR 


• Complete a partner activity 

• Continue with page 3 activities 

DAY SIX 


• Revise the patterns for this list using the 

metacognitive approach 

• Brainstorm other words that follow the same 

patterns 

• Spelling game or activity 

• Begin word search 

DAY SEVEN 

• Complete word search 



DAY EIGHT 



• Complete page 4 activities 

• Begin word building (see page 14) 

DAY NINE 

• Dictation passages (see pages 39 – 56) 


• Complete word building 


DAY FIVE 


• Dictation passages (see pages 39 – 56) 


DAY TEN 


• Test of list words (see page 33) 

• Recording of scores and self-evaluation 

• Revision of list words 

• Informal activities (see pages 20 – 23) 

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Use the blank timetable below to plan a spelling programme for your class. 

DAY ONE 

DAY TWO 

DAY THREE 

DAY FOUR 

DAY FIVE 

DAY SIX 

DAY SEVEN 

DAY EIGHT 

DAY NINE 

DAY TEN 



Metacognitive 

Aim: 

Approach 

To encourage children to become successful independent spellers and thinkers. 

Introductory Stage: 

• Each category of question (Clarifying, Literal, Inferential, Personal, Visualising, Predictive, Summarising and 

Reflective) should be explained to the children. It is important that they understand what kind of question they 

are asking. 

• Not all cards will be relevant in every situation. On occasion, they will be. 

• Some of the questions may appear to be the same but are repeated under different categories. This is because 

the context is different and this should be explained to the children. 

Preparation Stage: 

Modelling Stage: 

• The teacher chooses a suitable spelling word. A word that encompasses all the categories of questions is better. 

However, it should be stressed that not all categories are relevant to every word. For example, ‘yesterday’. 

• The cards are displayed for all children to see. Teachers might prefer to enlarge the cards to A3 when 

photocopying or laminate them. (See pages 6 – 13). 

• The teacher models a word, for example, ‘yesterday’. The teacher demonstrates the thinking process involved by 

applying the questions suggested in the relevant categories and ‘talking’ through his or her answers. 

• Allowing children to interact with the teacher using this process can be very productive. 

Explanation of Question Types: 

Clarifying questions are questions that make words, 

phrases or concepts clear and understandable. 

For example: What is the word? 

yesterday 

What does this word mean? 

the day after today 

Does it have an easily recognisable root? 

day 

Can the word be broken into smaller sounds? 

yes—ter—day 

Inferential questions are questions that ask you 

to deduce answers from the text. 

For example: Can I think of some other way to 

help remember how to spell 

this word? 

break the word into three little words: 

yes, ter, day 

Literal questions are questions that have a 

straightforward answer found in the text. 

For example: What is the tricky part of the word? 

ter 

Is there a rule for this word? 

no 


Personal questions are questions that are relevant to oneself. 

For example: Is there a rhythm in the word? 

yes 

Is there a familiar sound in this word? 

ay 

Is this a word that I need to learn to spell? 

yes, because I use this word regularly 


Metacognitive 

Approach 

Visualising questions are questions that require 

you to ‘see’ the word or shape in your mind. 

For example: Close your eyes. 

Can I see the word inside my head? 

yes/no 

Can I see the shape of the word? 

Summarising questions are questions that 

demand a reiteration and understanding of 

what went before. 

For example: Can I state the rule for this word? 

there isn’t a rule 

Can I make a sentence for this word? 

yes – Yesterday I went swimming with 

my friend. 

Can I write this word in a dictated 

passage? 

yes/no 

The ‘Reflective Questions’ card should be used as a challenge for every child. It is designed to extend the more successful 

speller. It also offers the opportunity for individuals to recognise their own areas of strengths and weaknesses. 

This card should be used either at the end of the lesson or after the dictation to reflect on success and to set new goals for 

themselves. 

The following pages contain a set of cards for encouraging this way of thinking. 

Predictive questions are questions that require 

you to forecast a possible outcome. 

For example: Can I give another word with a similar 

spelling? 

today has the same ending 

Can I spell this word? 

yes/no 

Can I write it from memory and say each 

letter as I do it? 

t–o–d–a–y 

Reflective questions review the strategies used to learn new 

words and how you feel about your progress. 

For example: How did I do? 

happy/ reasonably happy/ unhappy 

Were my choices of strategies effective? 

yes/no 

Will learning how to spell this word help me to 

spell other words? 

yes/no 

Was there anybody or anything that could have 

helped me? 

I could have used a dictionary or got my family to 

test me. 

How do I feel? 

happy/ reasonably happy/ unhappy 



FLASH CARD 

larifying Questions 

C 

What does this word mean? 

Does it have an easily recognisable root? 

Can the word be broken into smaller sounds? 



FLASH CARD 

iteral Questions 

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What is the tricky part of the word? 

Is there a rule for this word? 



FLASH CARD 

nferential Questions 

I 

Can I think of some other way to help 

remember how to spell this word? 



FLASH CARD 

ersonal Questions 

P 

Is there a rhythm in the word? 

Is there a familiar sound in this word? 

Is this a word that I need to learn to spell? 



FLASH CARD 

isualising Questions 

V 

Can I see the word inside my head? 

Can I see the shape of the word? 



FLASH CARD 

redictive 

Questions 

P 

Can I give another word with a 

similar spelling? 

Can I spell this word? 

Can I write it from memory and say each 

letter as I do it? 



FLASH CARD 

Questions 

S ummarising 

Can I state the rule for this word? 

Can I make a sentence for this word? 

Can I write this word in a dictated passage? 



FLASH CARD 

Questions 

R eflective 

How did I do? 

Were my choices of strategies effective? 

Will learning how to spell this word help 

me to spell other words? 

Was there anybody or anything that could have 

helped me? 


How do I feel? 


B uilding 

W ord 

Make a new word by adding an ending. 

es ing er ly ier 

s ed y less ful 

iest 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

+ = 

Can you make more words by 

adding a different ending? 



S pelling P artners 

Name 

Remember to ask how many words 

you will be tested on each day. 

1 

3 

4 

5 

2 

6 

Name 

Give your partner 

your list words. 

Write the date and get 

ready for your test. 

Your partner will slowly read each 

word twice. 

When you are finished, read through 

your words again then hand them to 

your partner. 

Your partner will mark your test, put 

on the score and hand it back to you. 

Good luck! 

Remember to ask how many words 

you will be tested on each day. 

1 

3 

4 

2 

Give your partner 

your list words. 

Write the date and get 

ready for your test. 

My partner's name 

My partner's name 

Date 

Date 

Total 


Your partner will slowly read each 

word twice. 

When you are finished, read through 

your words again then hand them to 

your partner. 

5 

6 

Your partner will mark your test, put 

on the score and hand it back to you. 

Good luck! 

Total 


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Below is a list of all words used in Book D. Also included is a list of suggested extension words, which reflect the 

changing vocabulary of the English language. Teachers may wish to add to this list as more words enter our 

vocabulary, particularly technology words. 

UNIT 1 

lace 

shade 

safe 

page 

shake 

snake 

plane 

base 

case 

chase 

hate 

mate 

plate 

brave 

grapes 

picnic 

plum 

comic 

gift 

grand 

pants 

pollute 

UNIT 2 

mice 

rice 

twice 

shine 

pipe 

wire 

rise 

wise 

quite 

invite 

dive 

prize 

arrive 

thirty 

thirteen 

circus 

pint 

petrol 

magic 

lamp 

weekend 

fortnight 

ist Words 

UNIT 3 

rode 

joke 

smoke 

poke 

alone 

wrote 

write 

wheel 

steep 

steel 

sheet 

creek 

cheese 

between 

fourteen 

fifteen 

clay 

often 

act 

April 

kilogram 

kilometre 

UNIT 4 

soap 

loaves 

count 

hour 

south 

sound 

shout 

proud 

mouse 

thousand 

mountain 

basket 

basketball 

dentist 

bottom 

blind 

being 

animal 

subtract 

divide 

multiply 

modem 

UNIT 5 

few 

threw 

grew 

flew 

drew 

blew 

grown 

follow 

bow 

bowl 

below 

begun 

beside 

bunch 

branch 

change 

chimney 

fetch 

kitchen 

lamb 

thumb 

monitor 

UNIT 6 

crack 

track 

brick 

trick 

ticket 

cricket 

chicken 

packet 

pocket 

rocket 

lock 

block 

flock 

knock 

luck 

o’clock 

pass 

kiss 

less 

lesson 

happen 

film 

UNIT 7 

beak 

heat 

lead 

meal 

team 

east 

Easter 

beads 

beans 

dream 

cream 

stream 

speak 

wheat 

reach 

really 

leaves 

season 

blood 

flood 

until 

lion 

UNIT 8 

family 

nobody 

busy 

city 

pony 

tiny 

angry 

hungry 

plenty 

twenty 

every 

everyone 

merry 

hurry 

sorry 

jelly 

silly 

sunny 

roll 

smell 

sure 

menu 

UNIT 9 

software 

hardware 

laid 

grain 

chain 

captain 

against 

harm 

mark 

sharp 

shark 

carpet 

army 

purse 

nurse 

return 

curve 

surprise 

Saturday 

Thursday 

true 

computer 



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oil 

boil 

soil 

point 

noise 

voice 

salt 

insect 

kennel 

June 

July 

during 

music 

shell 

bush 

fresh 

finish 

crash 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

Friday 

Sunday 

UNIT 11 

form 

storm 

corn 

corner 

sort 

sport 

torch 

north 

sore 

shore 

store 

order 

forget 

force 

forty 

airport 

tractor 

mushroom 

broom 

pool 

balloon 

password 

UNIT 12 

won 

wonder 

among 

monkey 

money 

honey 

none 

above 

Monday 

govern 

become 

belong 

castle 

cattle 

fiddle 

middle 

needle 

bottle 

terrible 

aeroplane 

island 

download 

UNIT 13 

bright 

sight 

eight 

naughty 

caught 

path 

gather 

through 

dance 

since 

prince 

princess 

heart 

move 

young 

triangle 

travel 

tried 

flies 

slipped 

sudden 

keyboard 

UNIT 14 

able 

people 

dust 

post 

listen 

forest 

August 

station 

giant 

strange 

strong 

string 

learn 

heard 

early 

earth 

desktop 

Internet 

world 

worm 

colour 

camera 

UNIT 15 

war 

warm 

thought 

bought 

brought 

barcode 

clothes 

together 

themselves 

build 

file 

fifth 

fifty 

eleven 

twelve 

hundred 

enjoy 

November 

wear 

bridge 

hospital 

tired 

UNIT 16 

September 

answer 

danger 

finger 

master 

quarter 

silver 

ladder 

matter 

robber 

rubber 

supper 

slippers 

quiet 

dried 

fruit 

orange 

banana 

vegetable 

carrot 

pudding 

person 

UNIT 17 

touch 

trouble 

country 

cousin 

enough 

piece 

field 

chief 

whole 

whose 

wild 

swan 

grey 

wolf 

steak 

iron 

engine 

soldier 

different 

board 

sew 

beautiful 

UNIT 18 

almost 

always 

already 

breakfast 

dead 

instead 

weather 

else 

goal 

elephant 

geography 

lawn 

scared 

goodbye 

picture 

pencil 

office 

minutes 

laugh 

television 

upstairs 

sugar 

SUGGESTED 

EXTENSION WORDS 

microchip 

centimetre 

recycle 

capital 

video 

adventure 

electric 

believe 

whistle 

succeed 

dangerous 

Christmas 

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A dditional A ctivities 

The following activities and games have been provided for your use as additional support to the spelling 

programme. They are a guide and can be developed to suit any class, programme or teaching style. 

Choose from the following activities and games if not already covered in the particular list being 

treated. 

Six photocopiable spelling games can be found on pages 28 – 30. 

Individual Activities 

Word Study – Useful for developing familiarity with the list words. 

Strategy 

• Make word shapes, word snakes or word sums for 

list words. 

• Find small words in list words. 

• Write the list words in alphabetical order or 

reverse alphabetical order. 

• Write list words with eyes closed or from memory. 

• Find antonyms, synonyms or homophones for 

the list words. 

• Make word builders by adding ‘s’, ‘ed’, ‘ing’, ‘er’, ‘est’, 

etc. 

Word Shapes: 

planelbgrapesplummvsafescomichasematecghatepicnicktagrandlacebrakefsnakey 

p 

Examples 

grapes = plum = 

Word Snakes: 

Word Sums: 

s giftcaseyebraveopantshade 

s + end = send; bl + end = blend 

For example, strawberry: straw, berry, raw, be 

• Sort words according to different criteria. For example, sort by initial/final letters; number of 

letters; number of syllables; number of vowels; 

number of consonants; parts of speech; rhyming/ 

non-rhyming or by children’s own choice. 

For example, hot/cold; close/shut; bare/bear. 


For example, walk: walks, walked, walking. 

• Write list words in sentences or as a question. For example, Did you hear the announcement to 

board the plane? 

• Write definitions for list words. These can be either looked up in a dictionary, or 

written in the child’s own words, and then checked. 



Individual Activities 

Word Study – Useful for developing familiarity with the list words. 

Strategy 

Examples 

• Write the base words for the list words. For example, the base word for sensible = sense. 

• Study and find word origins for list words. For example, audience comes from a Latin word 

‘audire’ which means to hear. 

• Hidden words – using the letters in a word to 

make as many new words as possible. 

• Rank words in level of 

difficulty in learning to spell. 

• Write a paragraph using a 

set number of list words. 

• Find words which have homographs (words which 

look the same, but have different meanings). 

For example, neighbours: house, neigh, nigh, bin, 

rough, bore etc. 

For example: lace 4 

plane 2 

snake 1 

case 3 

For example, use grapes, picnic and shade in a 

paragraph—When we got to the park, we sat in the 

shade. We spread out a blanket and ate our picnic. 

My favourite food was grapes. 

For example, bear/bear; rock/rock. 

• Anagrams of list words or search for any others. For example, nap is an anagram of pan; dance is an 

anagram of caned. 

• Write plurals for the list words. Discuss exceptions to the rule of simply adding ‘s’, for 

example, sheep, children. 


• Discuss adding ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ and how this 

changes the tense of words. 

For example, jumped and jumping: jumped is past 

tense, jumping is present tense. 

• Discover common prefixes and suffixes for words. 

For example, un-, dis-, -ly, -ment. 

• Missing vowels – write list words with missing 

vowels. Children guess which words they are. 

For example, m ss ng = missing. 

• Children write their words as a rebus. 

For example, + lace = shoelace. 



Informal Activities 

Useful for the reinforcement of the list words in a less formal approach. 

Strategy 

Examples 

• Make theme booklets and illustrate. 

• Clap the number of syllables in words. 

• Make bookmarks with difficult words or list 

words. 

• Outline words. 

• Make concept words. 

• Write list words in the shape of a list word. 

• Use bright colours to trace list words. 

• Make ‘What am I?’ clues. 

Books could be about prefixes, colours, transport, 

the sea etc. 

lace 

chase 

hate 

mate 

For example, dictionary 

For example, 

For example, 

could be the shape for: when, chin, show etc. 

Partner and Group Activities 

Partner activities – Develops cooperation and increases knowledge of list words. 

Strategy 

Examples 

For example, 

I am a reptile. 

I have no legs. 

I shed my skin. 

My bite can be poisonous. 

What am I? 

A snake 


• Make memory helpers for list words. 

For example, a piece of pie. 

• Invent mnemonics. For example: said = Sally Anne is dancing; 

because = big elephants can always upset small 

elephants. 




Partner activities – Develops cooperation and increases knowledge of list words. 

Strategy 

Examples 

• Children make their own read-and-illustrate 

activities to swap with a partner. 

• Jumble words and swap 

with a partner. 

• Jumble sentences using 

list words and swap 

with a partner. 

• Make word searches or crossword puzzles on 

grid paper and swap with a partner. 

• Make yes/no questions or true/false statements 

containing list words and swap with a partner. 

• Word dominoes 

• Trace list words on partner’s back—partner 

guesses which spelling word was traced. 

For example, ‘school’ becomes ‘oslhco’. As an extra 

challenge, children can create jumbled words that 

can be pronounced. 

For example, ‘The cat sat on the mat’ becomes ‘Eht 

tca tas no eht tma’. Children who need a challenge 

could also jumble the order of the words around! 

This can be simply done by making a grid, and 

inserting the list of spelling words horizontally and 

vertically. Any gaps are filled with random letters in a 

word search or coloured black in a crossword. 

For example, ‘Is a frog a reptile?’; ‘Do we see clouds 

in the sky?’ 

Word dominoes can be made by breaking list words 

in half (ones that have a common ending or 

beginning). For example, c h a s e 

c h i l l 


• Cut pairs of list words in half and rejoin them. 

Children then see if their partner can guess the 

words. 

For example, picket blannic = picnic blanket. 

• Guess the word – Give a partner the first letter of 

a word chosen from the spelling list. The partner 

then has to guess the word before the whole 

word is revealed, one letter at a time. 

For example, the 

beginning of a game 

using the word ‘plane’ 

would look like this: 

p 




Shared Group Activities –Encourages the exchange of personal list words, therefore broadening the child’s 

word base. 

Strategy 

Examples 

• Make a word bank following the same sound 

pattern or rule as particular list words. Work as 

individuals, partners, small groups or a whole 

class. 

• Put list words into sentences – individually or as a 

whole class. 

Class or Group Games – Useful for the reinforcement of the list words in a less formal approach. 

• Simple class spelling competitions. 

• ‘Hunter’ 

• Play concentration, fish, word bingo or tic tac toe. 

For example, A list of words that end in ‘ight’: tight, 

right, flight, might, sight; 

Words that end with a silent ‘e’: made, same, shake. 

For example, each word could be written on a piece 

of card. Children can take one card each, and put 

themselves in a line so the order of words makes 

sense. Cards with common words like ‘a’, ‘and’, ‘the’, 

will need to be used also. 

For example, a ‘Difficult Word of the Day’ 

competition, where the class try to spell a 

challenging word. 

Use individual books, charts, shared stories, poems 

etc. to find a particular spelling pattern or rule 

being treated. 

In tic tac toe, each player uses a list of words with a 

common sound as their ‘noughts and crosses’. For 

example, in the game below, player one used a 

bank of ‘sh-’ words; player two used a bank of ‘-all’ 

words. 


call 

ball 

shock 

wall 

she 

ship 

• Play hangman or a similar game, called 

‘Shannon’s Game’. 

In ‘Shannon’s Game’, children need to guess the 

letters in the correct order in which they occur in 

each word. 




Class or Group Games – Useful for the reinforcement of the list words in a less formal approach. 

Strategy 

• Play ‘Celebrity Head Words’, 

picture clue words 

or charades. 

Examples 

• ‘Guess My Word’. Children ask questions that require a yes/no 

response to guess the mystery spelling word. 

‘Celebrity Head Words’ 

Child uses a headband to hold a card with a list 

word on their head. They ask questions of the class, 

which can only be answered yes or no. For example, 

Does the word end in ‘t’? 

• Magazine hunt for list words Choose a number of words to focus on for a week. 

Children can also search for these in newspapers 

or any other reading material in the classroom. 

Children can circle or underline words they find. At 

the end of the week, children can count their score 

and share the sentences they found. 

• Play a game similar to ‘Memory’ using the small 

words within compound words written on cards. 

• Children write quiz questions for list words, and 

give them to a friend to solve. A ‘quiz night’ could 

also be held using multiple lists. 

• Children write clues to match their list words. 

Hold a small competition each day to see who 

can solve the puzzle first. 

For example, butter + fly; foot + ball. 

For example, What can burn us, but also gives us 

warmth? (fire) 

For example, 

Add ‘basket’ to ‘ball’ = basketball. 

Take ‘er’ from ‘mother’ = moth. 


Also refer to pages 28 – 30 for photocopiable spelling games. 

Books of other photocopiable spelling games are available from Prim-Ed Publishing: 

2075 50 Spelling Activities 

2078 Literacy Games 

Commercial board games involving word formation may also be of benefit to a spelling programme. 


C hildren with S pecial N eeds 

The spelling activities in My Spelling Workbook can be modified or added to for children with special needs. Some 

additional suggestions are included below for children with learning difficulties. The worksheet on page 26 is designed 

for children who fall into this category. Children in need of extension will benefit from many of the suggestions 

included in the Additional Activities pages of this book. Page 27 also contains an opportunity for spelling extension. 

Strategies for Children with Learning Difficulties 

Strategy 

• Encourage children to ‘have a go’ and take risks 

with approximate spelling. 

• Encourage as much reading as possible. 

• Break each spelling list into 

shorter lists based on similar 

spelling patterns. 

• Longer words can be ‘chunked’ (broken into 

chunks) to assist spelling, rather than 

conventional syllables. 

• Emphasise spelling rules. 

• Encourage children to look at difficult words, 

focus on the problem part, close their eyes, and 

then write it. 

• Write list words on graph paper, cut out the 

letters, and then build the word from the cut-out 

letters. 

• Write the list words, leaving out some letters. 

Complete the words the next day. 

Examples 

For example, using ‘have a go’ pads or spelling 

journals for children to try out their spelling when 

writing stories etc. 

Include different sources of print around the 

classroom for children to find correct spelling. For 

example, opposites, colours, favourite sayings, days 

of the week. 

For example, these list words could be broken up 

as follows: 

brake, shake, snake; 

base, case, chase; 

plate, mate, hate. 

For example, cent i pede, el ec tric, in vent ing. 

Children should be encouraged to choose how to 

chunk the words themselves, so as to suit each 

child’s preferred learning style. 

For example, magic ‘e’, ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’. 

For example, the problem part of night might be ’igh’. 

c a t h 

c 


For example, c m e = chimney. 

• Find words that rhyme with the list words. 

Underline them if they are spelt the same. 

• Prepare a cloze passage, deleting list words. 

Children select the correct word to go in the 

correct space. 

• Use sentence frames to develop a spelling 

vocabulary of list words. 

For example, goat: note, boat, wrote, float. 

For example, ‘dinosaurs’ and ‘plants’ might fit into: 

Many ate . 

For example: We took plates to the picnic. 

We took sandwiches to the picnic. 


C hildren with S pecial N eeds 

Strategy 

• Use games like word bingo and word quizzes. 

• Make new words by writing letters in front of a 

sound. 

• Make alphabet books to use as personal 

dictionaries. 

• Play snap with compound word parts, prefixes 

and suffixes. 

• Use list words to make spelling ladders, with each 

word starting with the letter which ends the 

word before. 

• Decorate or illustrate list words. 

• Write list words using string or pipe cleaners. 

• Use magnetic letters to form words from 

memory on a board. 

Strategies for Children with Learning Difficulties 

‘Word Bingo’ 

Children copy words on bingo cards, checking their 

spelling, then cover words with counters on their 

cards if the word is called. 

‘Word Quizzes’ 

Using a word list, children write the correct word. 

For example, Write the word ending in ‘ade’; Write 

the word with ‘ire’ in the middle. 

For example, ‘ine’ could be added to with ‘v’, ‘tw’, ‘f ’, 

‘m’, ‘n’, etc. 

Children write any difficult words they have found 

under each letter. 

For example, ‘foot’ matches with ‘ball’; ‘tele-’ matches 

with ‘phone’; ‘govern’ matches with ‘ment’. 

For example: 

Examples 

s n a k e 

a 

c 

h 

Children can draw pictures and ask other children to 

guess which word they have drawn; or simply make 

words into patterns. 

Children can make each letter, or just the word shape. 


• Write list words in sand or salt. 

l e t t e r 

Children could also trace words on a desk or 

sandpaper. Discussing whether word shapes are ‘tall’ 

or ‘small’ could follow. 

• Use list words to build other words. 

• Make simple designs using the list words written 

end to end. 

For example, using the word ‘are’: 

b , c , n’t 

Use shapes like circles, triangles and spirals. 


N ew Words 

Name: 

Date: 

My new word is 

1. (a) Say your word. 

(b) Clap the syllables. 

(c) My word has 

syllables. 

3. Write your word in a sentence. 

6. Can you draw your word or somebody 

doing your word? 

2. (a) My word begins 

with the letter(s) 

(b) My word ends 

with the letter(s) 

(c) The middle letters are 

4. A word that rhymes with my word is 

5. My word means 

7. Cover your word. 

Colour a balloon every time you write 

your new word correctly. 



S pelling 

E xtension 

Name: 

Date: 

My extension spelling words 

1. 2. 3. 

4. 5. 6. 

7. 8. 9. 

10. 11. 12. 

My words in alphabetical order 

Synonyms of my words 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

More activities 

Create a crosspatch 

with clues. 

Find rhyming words. 

Write a quiz. 

Put the words into 

a short story. 

Write a concrete 

(shape) poem 

using your words. 


Design an 

information poster 

about one of your 

words. 

9. 

Create a word search. 

10. 

11. 

12. 


S pelling 

G ames 

Rebus 

Choose five list or revision words you can make into a rebus for a friend to solve. 

They will need to be words that have two or more syllables. 

For example, hap + = happen; + long = belong. 

1. + = 

2. + = 

3. + = 

4. + = 

5. + = 

Give your rebuses to a friend to solve. How many did he/she guess correctly? 

Mystery Words 

Write six list words with at least three letters missing. For example, 

b _ _ a _ _ as _ = breakfast. Swap with a friend and time how long it takes you 

to correctly write all six words. 

= 

= 


= 

= 

= 

= 

Name: 

My time: 


a l 

ba l she 

S pelling 

Noughts and Crosses 

Select five list words with a common sound, and ask a partner to do 

the same for a different sound. (If there are not enough words with 

a common sound in your list, then make up some more.) 

In this example, one player used ‘sh-’ words, and the other ‘-all’ 

words. 

The first person to get three words in a row wins! 

ship 

ca l wa l 

she 

shock 

ca l wa l ship 

shock 

1. Invent your own secret code by 

writing a number from one to 

26 in the boxes below. Four 

have been done for you. 

a = 21 j = s = 

b = k = t = 

c = 13 l = 6 u = 

d = m = v = 

e = 2 n = w= 

Secret Codes 

call 

ball 

shock 

G ames 

wall 

she 

2. Write six list words using your secret 

code, and give them to a partner to solve. 

For example, 6, 21, 13, 2 = lace. 

Code 

= 

= 

= 

Word 


ship 

f = o = x = 

g = p = y = 

h = q = z = 

i = r = 

= 

= 

= 


S pelling 

G ames 

Sinking Ships 

You and a partner will need a grid each to play this game. 

1. Choose eight list words (‘ships’) each, and write each one in a 

square in the grid. Make sure your partner can’t see! 

2. Take turns to call out a grid coordinate where you think a ‘ship’ might be. 

If you are correct, you must spell the word correctly to sink the ship! 

3. The winner is the first to sink his or her partner’s eight ships. 

(Hint– the game is easier if you mark your grid when you miss or hit). 

Words in Disguise 

Choose six list words. Disguise each word into a new word by changing one letter, and 

then rearranging the letters. For example, ‘lead’ becomes ‘fade’. 

Give your words to a partner, and see how many they can guess. 

Disguised Word 

= 

List Word 


= 

= 

= 

= 

= 


C ertificates 



A ssessment 

There are many different ways to assess spelling. The pages that 

follow are provided to help support the My Spelling Workbook programme. 

Individual spelling records can be kept 

using page 37. Pre-test and final test 

scores are recorded along with 

anecdotal notes. These notes can come 

together as an overview of the child’s 

progress in spelling during the 18 units 

and can be discussed during parent/ 

teacher conferences and in reports. 

Page 33 can be used for 

pre-tests at the beginning of 

each unit and again for the 

final assessment. 

Pages 34 – 36 can be 

used to specifically 

record each word 

learned and the time 

taken to master a unit of 

words. Recording in this 

way may be useful for 

children with special 

needs, those with English 

as an additional 

language or for the 

whole class. 

A record of spelling results 

for the whole class can be 

recorded on page 38. 



A ssessment 

Name 

Date 

1. 2. 3. 

4. 5. 6. 

7. 8. 9. 

10. 11. 12. 

13. 14. 15. 

16. 17. 18. 

19. 20. 21. 

22. 

Name 

Date 

1. 2. 3. 

4. 5. 6. 

7. 8. 9. 

10. 11. 12. 

13. 14. 15. 

16. 17. 18. 

Total Score 


22 

19. 20. 21. 

22. 

Total Score 

22 


A 

ssessment 

= can say word 

= can write word 

= has remembered correct spelling 

Name: 

LIST 1 

LIST 2 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

lace 

shade 

safe 

page 

shake 

snake 

plane 

base 

case 

chase 

hate 

Date completed: 

Date begun: 

soap 

loaves 

count 

hour 

south 

sound 

shout 

LIST 4 

mate 

plate 

brave 

grapes 

picnic 

plum 

comic 

gift 

grand 

pants 

pollute 

basket 

basketball 

dentist 

bottom 

blind 

being 

mice 

rice 

twice 

shine 

pipe 

wire 

rise 

wise 

quite 

invite 

dive 


Date begun: 

few 

threw 

grew 

flew 

drew 

blew 

LIST 5 

prize 

arrive 

thirty 

thirteen 

circus 

pint 

petrol 

magic 

lamp 

weekend 

fortnight 

begun 

beside 

bunch 

branch 

change 

chimney 

rode 

joke 

smoke 

poke 

alone 

wrote 

write 

wheel 

steep 

steel 

sheet 


Date begun: 

crack 

track 

brick 

LIST 3 

LIST 6 

animal 

grown 

fetch 

chicken 

kiss 

creek 

cheese 

between 

fourteen 

fifteen 

clay 

often 

act 

April 

kilogram 

kilometre 

block 

flock 

knock 


trick 

ticket 

cricket 

luck 

o’clock 

pass 

proud 

subtract 

follow 

kitchen 

packet 

less 

mouse 

divide 

bow 

lamb 

pocket 

lesson 

thousand 

multiply 

bowl 

thumb 

rocket 

happen 

mountain 


modem 

below 


monitor 

lock 


film 


A ssessment 




Name: 

LIST 7 

LIST 8 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

beak 

heat 

lead 

meal 

team 

east 

Easter 

beads 

beans 

dream 

cream 


Date begun: 

oil 

boil 

soil 

point 

noise 

voice 

salt 

stream 

speak 

wheat 

reach 

really 

leaves 

season 

blood 

flood 

until 

lion 

LIST 10 

during 

music 

shell 

bush 

fresh 

finish 

crash 

family 

nobody 

busy 

city 

pony 

tiny 

angry 

hungry 

plenty 

twenty 

every 


Date begun: 

form 

storm 

corn 

corner 

sort 

sport 

torch 

everyone 

merry 

hurry 

sorry 

jelly 

silly 

sunny 

roll 

LIST 11 

smell 

sure 

menu 

order 

forget 

force 

forty 

airport 

tractor 

mushroom 

software 

hardware 

laid 

grain 

chain 

captain 

against 

harm 

mark 

sharp 

shark 

LIST 9 

carpet 

army 

purse 

nurse 

return 

curve 

surprise 

Saturday 

Thursday 

true 

computer 


LIST 12 

Date begun: 

won 

belong 

wonder 

castle 

among 

cattle 

monkey 

fiddle 

money 

middle 

honey 

needle 

none 

bottle 


insect 

Tuesday 

north 

broom 

above 

terrible 

kennel 

Wednesday 

sore 

pool 

Monday 

aeroplane 

June 

Friday 

shore 

balloon 

govern 

island 

July 


Sunday 

store 


password 

become 


download 


A ssessment 




Name: 

LIST 13 

LIST 14 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

Date begun: 

bright 

sight 

eight 

naughty 

caught 

path 

gather 

through 

dance 

since 

prince 


Date begun: 

September 

answer 

danger 

finger 

master 

quarter 

silver 

LIST 16 

princess 

heart 

move 

young 

triangle 

travel 

tried 

flies 

slipped 

sudden 

keyboard 

supper 

slippers 

quiet 

dried 

fruit 

orange 

able 

people 

dust 

post 

listen 

forest 

August 

station 

giant 

strange 

strong 


Date begun: 

touch 

trouble 

country 

cousin 

enough 

piece 

LIST 17 

string 

learn 

heard 

early 

earth 

desktop 

Internet 

world 

worm 

colour 

camera 

swan 

grey 

wolf 

steak 

iron 

engine 

war 

warm 

thought 

bought 

brought 

barcode 

clothes 

together 

themselves 

build 

file 


Date begun: 

almost 

always 

already 

breakfast 

LIST 15 

LIST 18 

fifth 

fifty 

eleven 

twelve 

hundred 

enjoy 

November 

wear 

bridge 

hospital 

banana 

field 

soldier 

weather 

minutes 

tired 

lawn 

scared 

goodbye 

picture 


dead 

instead 

pencil 

office 

ladder 

vegetable 

chief 

different 

else 

laugh 

matter 

carrot 

whole 

board 

goal 

television 

robber 

pudding 

whose 

sew 

elephant 

upstairs 

rubber 


person 

wild 


beautiful 

geography 


sugar 


A ssessment 



T 

est 

C hecklist 



U nit 1 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraph ‘a-e’ 

• initial blends ‘sn’, ‘pl’, ‘br’ and ‘gr’ 

• initial digraphs ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ 

• words ending in ‘ic’ 

DICTATION 

1. We laid out the picnic 

blanket in the shade and ate 

some grapes from the plate. 

2. It is not safe, nor brave, to 

chase a snake. 

3. He opened the gift she took 

from her case and found a 

toy plane and a comic book. 

4. I hate the lace on those 

pants! 

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES 

1. Demonstrate how the ‘e’ is 

dropped when extending ‘a-e’ 

words. For example, braking, 

shady. 

2. Discuss other patterns in the 

non ‘a-e’ words. 

3. List homophones or 

homonyms of some list words. 

For example, plane/plain; pants, 

page, plate. 

4. See also pages 18 – 23. 

ANSWERS 

1. (a) picnic (b) chase 

(c) gift (d) lace 

(e) pollute (f) safe 

(g) hate 

2. 

13 

g 

r 

a 

Viewing 

16 

p 

e 

s 

3. (a) plane (b) pants 

(c) mate (d) page 

(e) plate (f) grapes 

LIST 

lace 

shade 

safe 

page 

shake 

snake 

plane 

base 

case 

chase 

hate 

mate 

plate 

brave 

grapes 

picnic 

plum 

comic 

gift 

grand 

pants 

pollute 

4. (a) picnic (b) lace 

(c) pollute (d) snake 

(e) plane (f ) plum 

(g) brave (h) safe 

5. (a) shade (b) hate 

(c) aunt (d) close 

(e) brave 

WORD BUILDING 

laces, laced, lacing, lacy 

shades, shaded, shading, shady 

safer, safest, safely, safety 

pages 

shakes, shaken, shook, shaking, 

shaky, shakily, shakier, shakiest 

snakes, snaky 

planes 

bases, based, basing 

cases, suitcase, briefcase 

chases, chased, chasing 

hates, hated, hating, hateful 

mates 

plates, plated, plating 

braves, braved, braving, braver, 

bravest, bravely, bravery 

picnics, picnicked, picnicking 

plums 

comics 

gifts 

grandly, grandness, grandeur, 

grandchild, grandparents, 

grandstand 

underpants 

pollutes, polluted, polluting, 

pollution, pollutant 

6. (a) break (b) brake 

7. (a) plane, grapes, plum, safe, 

comic, chase, mate, hate, 

picnic, grand, lace, pollute, 

snake, gift, case, brave, 

pants, shade 

(b) page, shake, base, plate 

8. 

REVISION 

This list is taken 

from Units 1 – 18 

of My Spelling 

Workbook C, and 

covers a range of 


cable (1) 

place (4) 

deck (7) 

song (3) 

cent (9) 

close (5) 

litre (2) 

aunt (11) 

stuck (7) 

text (2) 

cage (4) 

door (16) 

lift (2) 

seal (1) 

fear (1) 

made (4) 

ice (6) 

egg (7) 

g r a n d t u e k a h s p 

i p i c m u l p m t r t o 

f r h l e c a l a v a o l 

t n a k w h s a f e p p l 

o i t e m a c t d v a a u 

p c e f a s o e w a g r t 

l c h a z e m k u r e g e 

u m e t a m e s a b r h g 

m e n d b o k p l a c c i 

n s a s a j a d p c i a f 

a e l h e h n e a m o s y 

m t p a n t s e o s m e j 

p l u d z r n c i n c i p 

Sample 

2 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

1 

m 

p l a n e 

a t 

3 4 

c p o l l u t e 

g e 

o a 

s a f e 

m n 

h 

g i f t 

b r a v e 

c s 

d 

l a c e 

p l u m 

10 

b 

i 

11 

s h a k e 

c 

n s 

n 

12 

c a s e 

i 

14 

h k 

15 

c h a s e 

t 

l a t e 

9. (a) lace, base, case, chase, place 

(b) comic, picnic 

(c) grapes, plum, egg 

10. (a) grand (b) pants 

(c) snake (d) case 

11. (a) grapes (b) comic 

(c) picnic (d) cable 

(e) pollute (f) chase 

(g) stuck (h) plum 

Prim-Ed Publishing 39 My Spelling Workbook Book D Teachers Guide

U nit 2 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘i-e’ and ‘ir’ 

• initial blends ‘tw’ and ‘pr’ 

• initial digraphs ‘sh’, ‘qu’ and ‘th’ 

DICTATION 

1. It would be wise to invite your 

family to stay on the weekend. 

2. The prize for the best magic 

trick has been won twice by the 

same person in the last thirteen 

years. 

3. We will arrive at the circus 

thirty minutes early. 

4. Some mice had nibbled on the 

packet of rice during the 

fortnight we were away. 


1. Discuss the long sound the ‘i’ 

makes in words that end in ‘e’ 

like ‘mice’ and ‘pipe’, compared 

to the short sound made in 

words like ‘pip’ and ‘sit’. 

2. List other number words that 

have a base of three, four and 

five etc. 

3. Find words that come from the 

same base as ‘circus’, such as 

‘circle’ and ‘circuit’. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) lift, life, live, dive 

(b) time, lime/tame, limp/lame, 

lamp 

2. (a) rise rises 

(b) wire wires 

(c) dive dives 

(d) mouse mice 

(e) pint pints 

(f) invite invites 

3. 

Viewing 

1 

3 

4 

5 

7 

12 

14 

20 

21 

a r r i v e 

2 

m 

d 

l a m p 

q i 

g 

6 

w u v 

p i 

8 

w 

9 

i n v i t e 

10 

c i r c u 

11 

s i s t 

n 

h r i s e e 

t 

13 

p i p e 

r n 

15 

p 

16 

t w i c e 

r 

h c 

i 

17 

m i c e 

18 

p 

z 

r 

e 

19 

w e e k e n d 

t h i r t e e n 

y 

r 

f o r t n i g h t 

l 

LIST 

mice 

rice 

twice 

shine 

pipe 

wire 

rise 

wise 

quite 

invite 

dive 

prize 

arrive 

thirty 

thirteen 

circus 

pint 

petrol 

magic 

lamp 

weekend 

fortnight 

WORD BUILDING 

4. (a) tee (b) you, our 

(c) out, put (d) ring, in 

(e) shin, in (f) quit, it 

5. (a) invite (b) circus 

(c) weekend (d) magic 

(e) thirteen 

6. (a) sister (b) rise 

(c) son (d) arrive 

(e) wise (f) output 

(g) life (h) over 

7. (a) delete (b) invite 

(c) wise (d) pipe 

(e) held (f) prize 

8. arrive, circus, invite, lamp, 

magic, pint, prize, thirteen, 

thirty, weekend, wire, wise 

shines, shone, shining, shiny, 

shinier, shiniest 

pipes, piped, piping, piper 

wires, wired, wiring, wiry 

rises, rose, rising, risen 

wisely, wisdom, wisecrack, 

unwise 

invites, invited, inviting, 

invitation 

dives, dived, diving, diver 

prizes, prized 

arrives, arrived, arriving, arrival 

thirties, thirtieth, thirtieths 

thirteenth, thirteenths 

circuses 

pints 

magical, magically, magician 

lamps 

weekends 

fortnights 

9. 

REVISION 







data (1) 

input (1) 

output (1) 

uncle (11) 

month (4) 

delete (5) 

over (15) 

any (12) 

own (8) 

held (5) 

your (3) 

sister (10) 

son (9) 

who (13) 

chip (7) 

flip (3) 

life (6) 

spring (9) 

m l a m p e d n e k e e w 

i d p i n t e t h i r t y 

c a b d e p u s e z i r p 

c l i r i c u q t t n i z 

i n o p u c e e u h v h n 

g t v r r i s e m i i s e 

a w i i t i p o a r t z e 

m i c e c e c o r t e e t 

q c r w w i p e r e z t r 

u e n i h s h s i n a r i 

i r i r s h d i v e g i h 

n r p e m a g w e r i h t 

e c i r t h g i n t r o f 

Sample 

10. (a) prize (b) circus 

(c) petrol (d) mice 

11. (a) mice (b) circus 

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U nit 3 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘o-e’ and ‘ee’ 

• initial blends ‘sm’, ‘st’, ‘cr’ and ‘cl’ 

• initial digraphs ‘wh’ and ‘ch’ 

• silent ‘w’ 

DICTATION 

1. He often wrote stories when he 

was home alone. 

2. When we saw the smoke, we 

rode our horses back to the 

creek as fast as we could. 

3. Between the two of us, we 

made fifteen cheese 

sandwiches. 

4. Can you write down the joke 

about the wheel you told me in 

April? 


1. List other words that contain 

the ‘ee’ sound. 

2. Discuss the past and present 

tenses of ‘rode’, ‘wrote’, joke’ and 

‘smoke’. 

3. Find other words with the 

prefix ‘kilo’. Write their 

meanings. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) clay 

(b) cheese 

(c) creek 

(d) joke, poke or smoke 

(e) rode 

(f ) wrote 

(g) steep 

2. clay, write, cheese 

1 

3. f i f t e e n 

2 3 

5 

6 

10 

o 

u 

c l a y 

4 

A p r i l h c 

t 

e t c 

b e t w e e n 

r 

e 

s s t e e l 

11 

o f t e n 

12 

s h e e t e 

e 

13 

k i 

14 

w 

15 

w r i t e 

h r 

p 

e o 

e t 

18 

a l o n e 

7 

k 

8 

j 

9 

p 

i o o 

l k k 

l o m e t r e 

g 

16 

r o d e 

a 

17 

s m o k e 

LIST 

rode 

joke 

smoke 

poke 

alone 

wrote 

write 

wheel 

steep 

steel 

sheet 

creek 

cheese 

between 

fourteen 

fifteen 

clay 

often 

act 

April 

kilogram 

kilometre 

WORD BUILDING 

jokes, joked, joking, joker, 

jokingly 

smokes, smoked, smoking, 

smoker 

pokes, poked, poking, poker 

writes, wrote, writing, writer 

wheels, wheeled, wheeling, 

wheelchair, wheelbarrow 

steeper, steepest 

steels, steely 

sheets 

creeks 

cheeses, cheesy, cheesecake 

fourteenth, fourteenths 

fifteenth, fifteenths 

clays 

acts, acted, acting, actor 

kilograms 

kilometres 

4. (a) wrote (b) April 

(c) steel (d) often 

5. (a) often (b) creek 

(c) steep (d) joke 

(e) cheese (f ) clay 

(g) wheel (h) write 

(i) between (j) act 

(k) April (l) kilometre 

(m) rode (n) steel 

6. (a) knife 

(b) today, clay 

(c) pull 

(d) salad, cheese 

7. (a) road (b) write 

(c) steel (d) creak 

(e) knows 

8. 

REVISION 







today (1) 

cork (4) 

flat (2) 

pull (14) 

eye (16) 

also (17) 

fight (8) 

salad (7) 

icon (5) 

frog (9) 

fast (10) 

knife (13) 

upon (17) 

tie (9) 

ask (10) 

nose (12) 

grandfather (15) 

work (16) 

y a l c a w s n e t f o k 

r l t j r s r e a c t b i 

i o k o c m r i s p e e l 

n n t u r o o x t p e t o 

e e v w e k d l e e h w m 

e m o b e n e e h c s e e 

t a e e k o y l h s r e t 

r r s t e e p e m c o n r 

u g t w p s p o k e d l e 

o o e e z e k o j e a i p 

f l e n e e t f i f r y r 

w i l e e h s m o p b n i 

p k l e r c i t A p r i l 


9. (a) clay (b) sheet 

(c) steel (d) creek 

10. (a) fifteen (b) salad 

(c) between (d) April 

(e) today 

11. (a) cheese 

(b) wheel 

(c) smoke 


3 

4 

16 

5 

9 

6 

1 

14 

18 19 

7 

12 

2 

10 

13 

8 

15 

U nit 4 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘oa’ and ‘ou’ 

• phoneme ‘a’ as in ‘basket’ 

• mathematical/computer terms 

DICTATION 

1. The dentist added a bar of soap 

to her shopping basket. 

2. They were worried by the 

sound of a wild animal which 

was coming from the south. 

3. Daniel sent a message to say 

they would be at the bottom of 

the mountain in an hour. 

4. During the course, he enjoyed 

being shown how to use things 

like a modem and a mouse. 


1. Discuss homographs and 

homophones of words like 

‘mouse’, ‘sound’, ‘hour’/’our’ and 

‘count’/’Count’. 

2. Make a class list of other maths 

terminology that is needed for 

number operations. For 

example, add, equals. 

3. Find other words that can be 

added to ball to make 

compound words. For example, 

football, netball, volleyball. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) port, pout, pour, hour 

(b) flan, flap, slap, soap 

2. (a) dentist (b) modem 

3. 

l o a v e s 

b 

l 

i 

n 

11 

d 

i 

a 

v 

n i m a l 

o 

o s o a p c o u n t 

u o 

t p 

s h o u t 

h o u r 

i d e n 

o 

d 

m b u 

t h o u s a n d b 

17 

s u b t r a c t u s 

m o d e m 

n k 

t 

b a s k e t d e n t i s t 

e 

a t 

o 

i 

i b 

m 

n 

n a 

g 

l 

20 

m u l t i p l y 

4. Teacher check 

5. (a) subtract (b) shout 

(c) large (d) sound 

(e) happy (f ) bite 

LIST 

soap 

loaves 

count 

hour 

south 

sound 

shout 

proud 

mouse 

thousand 

mountain 

basket 

basketball 

dentist 

bottom 

blind 

being 

animal 

subtract 

divide 

multiply 

modem 

6. (a) two (b) byte 

(c) Our, hour (d) air 

WORD BUILDING 

soaps, soaped, soaping, soapy 

counts, counted, counting, 

counter 

hours, hourly 

southern, southerly 

sounds, sounded, sounding 

shouts, shouted, shouting 

pride 

mice, mousy 

thousands, thousandth 

mountains, mountaineer 

baskets 

basketballs 

dentists, dentistry 

blinds, blinded, blinding, 

blindness 

animals 

subtracts, subtracted, 

subtracting, subtraction 

divides, divided, dividing, 

division, divisible, divider 

multiplies, multiplied, 

multiplying, multiplication, 

multiple 

modems 

7. (a) Joshua packed the basket 

with loaves of bread. 

(b) She gave a shout at the top 

of the mountain. 

8. 

m b m o t t o b k h b m l 

o l s o u n d d t p e o l 

u i o s a n u u h d g d s 

s n u o d o o d o o n e u 

n d s a r s t m u r i n b 

i i h p i e b a s k e t t 

a v o a m v s n a a b i r 

t i u l o a i t n v o s a 

n d t n u o c s d e l t c 

u e s b s l i o f i n s t 

o s i a e u a n i m a l u 

m b l l a b t e k s a b t 

m u l t i p l y a r u o h 

REVISION 







face (4) 

football (15) 

large (18) 

should (12) 

glass (10) 

insert (5) 

slept (2) 

mow (8) 

two (14) 

air (13) 

happy (12) 

kitten (11) 

holiday (15) 

host (17) 

please (8) 

bay (1) 

behind (3) 

bite (6) 

9. (a) so, out (b) bask, ask, as 

(c) so (d) out 


10. (a) mountain (b) soap 

11. animal, basket, being, blind, 

bottom, dentist, divide, hour, 

mountain, mouse, multiply, 

proud 


U nit 5 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘ew’, ‘ow’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’ 

• initial blends ‘gr’, ‘fl’, ‘dr’, ‘bl’ and ‘br’ 

• silent ‘b’ 

DICTATION 

1. Can you fetch the bowl from 

the kitchen? 

2. The weather grew worse as the 

pilot flew over the city, so he 

had to change his plan. 

3. When he returned a few weeks 

later, he was surprised that the 

lamb had grown so much. 

4. Just as the wedding had 

begun, the wind blew strongly 

and a branch fell from the tree. 


1. List other words that end in 

‘ow’. For example, hollow, 

shadow, window. 

2. The letter ‘b’ is silent in the list 

words ‘lamb’ and ‘thumb’. Find 

other words with silent ‘b’. 

3. List words such as ‘monitor’, 

‘bowl’ and ‘bow’ have more 

than one meaning. Write 

sentences to explain the 

different meanings. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) grown (b) branch 

(c) fetch (d) thumb 

(e) bowl (f) few, flew, 

threw, grew, 

drew or 

blew 

(g) bunch (h) lamb 

2. kit, neck, tick, hen, kin, chin etc. 

1 

d 

2 

3. 

t r 

3 

m o n i t o r 

h e 

h 

g r e w 

c u 

e 

h m 

f f e w 

l a m b 

10 

b o w l 

n 

l e 

g 

11 

b 

12 

b l e w 

b e s i d e o 

o 

14 

g r o w n 

15 

b e l o w 

u 

u 

16 

b r a n 

17 

c h 

n 

h 

c 

18 

k i t c h e n 

h 

m 

n 

19 

f e t c h 

y 

LIST 

few 

threw 

grew 

flew 

drew 

blew 

grown 

follow 

bow 

bowl 

below 

begun 

beside 

bunch 

branch 

change 

chimney 

fetch 

kitchen 

lamb 

thumb 

monitor 

WORD BUILDING 

fewer, fewest 

4. (a) grown (b) branch 

(c) bunch (d) fetch 

(e) beside (f ) blew 

(g) kitchen (h) thumb 

(i) follow (j) drew 

(k) few (l) below 

5. (a) below (b) front 

(c) begun (d) even 

(e) follow (f ) love 

6. (a) nearly (b) few 

(c) leave (d) drew 

(e) below (f ) branch 

follows, followed, following, 

follower 

bows, bowed, bowing 

bowls, bowled, bowling 

besides 

bunches, bunched, bunching 

branches, branched, branching 

changes, changed, changing 

chimneys 

fetches, fetched, fetching 

kitchens 

lambs, lambed, lambing 

thumbs 

monitors 

REVISION 







nearly (16) 

could (12) 

herself (15) 

himself (15) 

quick (16) 

mobile (5) 

pasta (2) 

love (7) 

front (9) 

even (11) 

fairy (13) 

their (14) 

visit (18) 

leave (8) 

wore (4) 

plant (2) 

away (11) 

skate (70) 

b e e g n a h c b o l w y 

u o g n t c t h u m b l e 

n b w a h h m e w w g n n 

c m o f r t o d n o r u m 

e u l h e b n i e l o g i 

h e l b w w i s h e w e h 

w h o m e h t e c b b o c 

t c f a n n o b t c h k b 

h t o l b w r n i h c i l 

b e g u n o w c k i t t e 

r f w d e r e e w f e h w 

e b l i f g r e w a l e n 

h c n a r b d b u n c h e 


7. (a) follow, followed, following 

(b) change, changed, changing 

(c) branch, branched, 

branching 

(d) bowl, bowled, bowling 

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8. 

9. (a) monitor, drew, fetch, lamb, 

begun, bowl, bow, few, flew, 

follow, branch, chimney, 

change, threw 

(b) grew, blew, grown, below 

beside, bunch, kitchen, 

thumb 

10. (a) even (b) blew 

(c) nearly (d) plant 

11. few, flew, blew, bow, bowl, 

below, lamb

U nit 6 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraph ‘ck’ 

• double consonants ‘ss’ and ‘pp’ 

• silent ‘k’ 

• initial blends ‘cr’, ‘tr’, ‘br’, ‘bl’ and ‘fl’ 

DICTATION 

1. He bought a ticket to the 

twelve o’clock cricket match. 

2. It was only a matter of luck that 

I managed to pass the test in 

the science lesson. 

3. If you happen to feel hungry, I 

have a packet of instant 

chicken soup in my pocket. 

4. The farmer forgot to lock the 

gate and the flock of sheep 

went wandering down the 

track. 


1. Use a table to list the ‘ck’ list 

words to which ‘er’ can be 

added to form a new word. 

How does it affect the 

meaning? 

2. Brainstorm a class list of other 

words that also contain ‘ss’. 

3. Find other words that make the 

‘k’ sound ‘ck’ makes using other 

spellings. For example, 

Christmas, kit, picnic, ache. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) ticket (b) film 

(c) chicken (d) brick 

(e) lock (f ) cricket 

(g) trick 

2. 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 

7 

9 

16 

k i s s 

l e s s o n 

f 

o 

l 

t i c k e t o 

f i l m 

8 

k r o c k e t 

h u 

i k 

a c 

10 

t c 

p k 

11 

b r i 

12 

c k 

p 

a h 

e 

c i 

n 

13 

c r a c k c 

r 

k 

i 

14 

p 

15 

o c k e t 

l c c n 

17 

b l o c k l 

c e o 

18 

p a c k e t c 

a 

k 

s 

l e s s 

19 

LIST 

crack 

track 

brick 

trick 

ticket 

cricket 

chicken 

packet 

pocket 

rocket 

lock 

block 

flock 

knock 

luck 

o’clock 

pass 

kiss 

less 

lesson 

happen 

film 

WORD BUILDING 

cracks, cracked, cracking, 

cracker 

tracks, tracked, tracking, tracker 

bricks, bricklayer 

tricks, tricked, tricking, trickery, 

trickster 

tickets, ticketed, ticketing 

cricketer 

chickens 

packets 

pockets, pocketed, pocketing 

rockets, rocketed, rocketing 

locks, locked, locking 

blocks, blocked, blocking, 

unblock 

flocks, flocked, flocking 

knocks, knocked, knocking, 

knocker 

lucky, unlucky 

3. block, brick, chicken, film, less, 

lesson, luck, o’clock, pass, 

rocket, ticket, trick 

4. (a) o’clock (b) flock 

(c) lesson 

5. (a) less (b) hello 

(c) buy (d) new 

(e) lock (f) die 

6. (a) blew (b) blue 

(c) lock (d) loch 

7. (a) chicken (b) rocket 

passes, passed, passing 

kisses, kissed, kissing 

lesser, lessen, lessening 

lessons 

happens, happened, happening 

films, filmed, filming 

REVISION 







crop (7) 

moth (18) 

buy (14) 

hello (12) 

boss (2) 

water (6) 

brother (9) 

class (10) 

knew (13) 

horn (4) 

peanut (7) 

window (8) 

new (14) 

winter (16) 

die (9) 

belt (1) 

hunt (5) 

skin (7) 

c i r k e p l t e k c i t 

p n r t c k b u e t b l o 

a k a k c o l f c m e l n 

s h t e k c o r k k n o k 

s a e l f r c c c p o b n 

o p k c t e k c o p s h o 

s p c r o c t r l e s s c 

s e i a a o k c f u e a k 

i n r r k l k o l o l p e 

k t c c p a c k e t o p l 

k e i k c h i c k e n e s 

c r o r c o r m i f s n s 


b m l i f i t r a c k p a 

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8. 

9. (a) chicken (b) lesson 

(c) rocket (d) o’clock 

(e) happen (f ) pocket 

10. (a) knock, knew 

(b) pass, kiss, less, boss, class 

(c) lock, block, flock, knock, 

o’clock 

(d) cricket, chicken, brother

U nit 7 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘ea’, ‘wh’ and ‘oo’ as in 

‘blood’ 

• initial blends ‘dr’, ‘cr’, ‘str’, ‘sp’, ‘bl’ 

and ‘fl’ 

DICTATION 

1. They couldn’t reach the 

stranded people until the flood 

water was lower. 

2. It was her dream to reach Africa 

and see a real lion. 

3. We never really ate a proper 

meal over Easter. 

4. When the football season had 

finished, the captain of the 

team was asked to speak to the 

class. 


1. Focus on the ‘y’ ending that can 

be added to many of the list 

words. Brainstorm other words 

‘y’ can be added to. 

2. Find rhyming words for ‘blood’ 

and’ flood’. What combinations 

of letters can make this sound? 

For example, mud, come etc. 

3. Discuss homographs and 

homophones for these words: 

‘season’, ‘stream’, ‘lead’, ‘cream’. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) blood (b) meal 

(c) heat (d) flood 

(e) team 

2. (a) heat, wheat(b) team 

(c) season (d) leaves 

(e) beans (f) wheat 

(g) season (h) really 

(i) reach 

3. 

1 

f 

3 

6 

l i o n 

o 

b l o d 

d r a 

12 

s 

13 

b e a n s 

t a t 

15 

c r e a m 

e 

18 

s p e a k 

e m 

a 

s 

o 

n 

7 

8 9 

10 

o t e a 

2 

14 

17 

19 20 

u 

n 

4 5 

w h e a t 

m 

e i 

e 

11 

b e a k l 

a e t 

l e a d 

d 

16 

E a s t e r 

e 

r e a l l y 

c e 

h a 

v 

e 

s 

LIST 

beak 

heat 

lead 

meal 

team 

east 

Easter 

beads 

beans 

dream 

cream 

stream 

speak 

wheat 

reach 

really 

leaves 

season 

blood 

flood 

until 

lion 

4. (a) wheat or heat 

(b) blood or flood 

(c) beak, speak 

(d) season 

5. (a) season (b) cream 

(c) dream (d) lion 

(e) wheat (f ) stream 

(g) lead (h) meal 

(i) leaves (j) flood 

(k) team (l) speak 

(m) reach (n) beads 

WORD BUILDING 

beaks 

heats, heated, heating, heater 

leads, led, leading, leader 

meals, mealtime 

teams, teamwork 

eastern, eastwards 

Easters 

dreams, dreamed, dreamt, 

dreaming, dreamer, dreamy 

creams, creamy 

streams, streamed, streaming, 

streamer 

speaks, spoke, speaking, 

speaker 

reaches, reached, reaching 

seasons, seasonal 

bloody, bloodthirsty 

floods, flooded, flooding, 

floodlight 

lions, lioness, lionesses 

6. lion, leaves, reach 

7. (a) been (b) led 

(c) to, shoo (d) team, high 

REVISION 







remote (2) 

what (13) 

easy (12) 

puppy (11) 

gram (2) 

bank (3) 

wife (6) 

hose (5) 

better (10) 

clever (17) 

getting (14) 

rusty (12) 

does (11) 

high (8) 

shoe (17) 

job (1) 

cover (9) 

too (18) 


8. 

n o y b a s t t r k r w h 

p o l h s r e a t a e h w 

o m l n s c m e l e a t h 

n r a n k a e h a p c e f 

t e e c r e a m e s h a l 

b t r n o i l t d a e m o 

r s e a s o n a s r t m o 

e a s s e s e a s a e p d 

a e e d v b u n t i l a e 

l a a a l d e a s t d o m 

y e e o s e v a e l l o i 

l s o l u o o d k o n l o 

y d o n i m a e r t s f n 


9. (a) beak beaks 

(b) leaf leaves 

(c) puppy puppies 

(d) team teams 

10. (a) Easter (b) really 

(c) meal (d) flood 

(e) wheat (f) wife 

(g) bank (h) lion 

(i) better (j) easy

U nit 8 

LIST FOCUS 

• words ending in ‘y’ 

• double consonants ‘rr’, ‘ll’ 

and ‘nn’ 

• initial blends ‘pl’, ‘tw’ and ‘sm’ 

DICTATION 

1. There was plenty of jelly for 

everyone. 

2. Nobody was sure what was on 

the menu. 

3. I know you are busy, but it’s silly 

to hurry. 

4. She was sorry she had come to 

the city because it was so busy. 


1. Discuss other describing words 

that end in ‘y’, such as ‘happy’, 

‘itchy’ etc. Mention words that 

end in ‘ly’ are often adjectives. 

2. Find other words like ‘menu’ 

that have become part of the 

English language. 

3. Brainstorm a list of synonyms 

and antonyms for the words 

‘angry’ and ‘tiny’. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) silly, jelly, roll, smell 

(b) pony, plenty, plan, paint, 

put, present, peek 

(c) roll, walk 

(d) everyone 

2. every, one, no, rye, eve, ever, 

yen, on etc. 

1 

2 

3. 

m 

20 

a 

5 

m 

8 

11 

e 

s u n 

m u 

10 

s u r e 

l 

l t 

i 

n 

14 

p o 

15 

n y 

o 

b u 

o 

18 

c d 

19 

f a m i l y 

t 

n g r y 

16 17 

e v 

r 

r 

n y 

3 4 

12 

h 

u 

n 

g 

r 

s y 

o 

r 

r 

y 

6 

7 

9 

s 

e r y o n e i 

v l 

p j e l l y 

l r y 

t w e n t y 

n 

t 

13 

u r r y 

o 

l 

l 

LIST 

family 

nobody 

busy 

city 

pony 

tiny 

angry 

hungry 

plenty 

twenty 

every 

everyone 

merry 

hurry 

sorry 

jelly 

silly 

sunny 

roll 

smell 

sure 

menu 

WORD BUILDING 

families 

4. (a) twenty (b) pony 

(c) jelly (d) sunny 

(e) city (f) angry 

5. angry, busy, city, every, hungry, 

jelly, menu, plenty, roll, sunny, 

sure, tiny 

6. (a) busy (b) sunny 

(c) queen (d) sure 

(e) nobody (f) night 

7. (a) bigger (b) city 

(c) silly (d) tiny 

(e) peek (f) cried 

(g) angry (h) merry 


busily, busier, busiest 

cities 

ponies 

tinier, tiniest 

angrier, angriest 

hungrier, hungriest 

plentiful 

twenties, twentieth, twentieths 

everyday, everywhere 

merrier, merriest, merrily 

hurries, hurried, hurrying 

sorrier, sorriest 

jellies, jellied, jellyfish 

sillier, silliest, silliness 

sunnier, sunniest 

rolls, rolled, rolling, roller 

smells, smelled, smelt, smelling, 

smelly, smellier, smelliest 

surely, sureness, unsure 

menus 

REVISION 







bigger (8) 

plan (2) 

because (3) 

paint (6) 

walk (14) 

baby (12) 

put (11) 

across (11) 

present (15) 

peek (17) 

use (9) 

night (8) 

after (10) 

queen (16) 

cried (18) 

bedroom 15) 

mind (11) 

mile (6) 

s a y l l e j m e l l o r 

l m f r m e b u s y s e r 

i m e n o y r e v e l r e 

y e l l y s y s y n n u s 

o r c e l l r r y w u s s 

n r g i l p r h e t r b u 

p y n i t u h u n g r y m 

s y s v h y e y t u y t e 

o i a e l r v l s n d n n 

r t y i c g e n o e o e u 

r c m d y n r p o v b w g 

y a o e v a y e r y o t r 


9. 

f b o n y t n e l p n o y 

10. (a) paint (b) family 

(c) menu 

11. (a) Everyone was happy that 

jelly was on the menu. 

(b) It was a beautiful sunny day 

in the city. 

(c) There was plenty of time 

left to see the castle. 


U nit 9 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘ai’, ‘ar’, ‘ur’ and ‘ay’ 

• trigraph ‘are’ 

DICTATION 

1. The computer software was a 

surprise gift. 

2. The team captain was worried 

about the game against the 

Hawks on Saturday. 

3. The carpet will be laid on 

Thursday. 

4. It wasn’t true that the nurse 

had once been in the army. 


1. List other groups of words 

which have capital letters. For 

example, months, people’s 

names, etc. 

2. Discuss how the ‘e’ is dropped 

in making words like ‘nursing’, 

and ‘surprising’. 

3. Brainstorm a list of other 

compound words that are 

associated with computers. For 

example, keyboard, backspace. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) shark (b) computer 

1 

2 

3 

2. 

p 

c 

r 

10 

s 

h 

15 

s h a r 

r 

k 

r 

p 

e 

t 

5 

c u r v e 

17 

a 

p 

t 

u 

s 

e 

9 

c h a i n 

a i 

13 

n u 

14 

s 

u 

T h u r 

r 

p 

r 

e 

s d a y 

4 

s o 

f t w a r 

3. (a) rain, in (b) cap, in, apt 

(c) turn, urn (d) arm, my 

m 

p 

u 

t 

e 

r 

18 

g 

16 

h 

e 

t 

u 

6 

7 

l h r 

8 

a g a i n s t 

i 

d 

r a 

d 

i 

19 

t w 

20 

S a t u r d a y 

e 

u 

e 

a 

r 

e 

i 

r 

11 12 

m a r 

n 

r 

m 

y 

k 

LIST 

software 

hardware 

laid 

grain 

chain 

captain 

against 

harm 

mark 

sharp 

shark 

carpet 

army 

purse 

nurse 

return 

curve 

surprise 

Saturday 

Thursday 

true 

computer 

WORD BUILDING 

4. (a) army (b) curve 

(c) Thursday (d) nurse 

(e) against (f ) mark 

(g) laid (h) true 

(i) harm (j) chain 

(k) captain (l) purse 

(m) carpet (n) grain 

grains, grained, grainier, 

grainiest, granular, granulated 

chains, chained, chaining, 

chainsaw 

captains, captained, captaining, 

captaincy 

5. (a) curve, curved, curving 

(b) harm, harmed, harming 

(c) carpet, carpeted, carpeting 

(d) surprise, surprised, 

surprising 

6. (a) poor (b) paw 

(c) hour (d) our 

harms, harmed, harming, 

harmful, harmless, unharmed 

marks, marked, marking, 

marker, markedly 

sharper, sharpest, sharpen, 

sharpened, sharpening, sharply, 

sharpness 

sharks 

carpets, carpeted, carpeting 

armies 

purses 

nurses, nursed, nursing, 

nursemaid, nursery 

returns, returned, returning 

curves, curved, curving, curvy, 

curvature 

surprises, surprised, surprising, 

surprisingly 

Saturdays 

Thursdays 

truth, truthful, truthfully, truly 

computers, computerise 

7. 

REVISION 







half (18) 

email (5) 

light (8) 

child (10) 

story (18) 

carry (12) 

next (15) 

poor (16) 

there (3) 

again (6) 

our (10) 

kneel (13) 

sometimes (15) 

both (17) 

solid (3) 

says (16) 

save (1) 

yellow (8) 

s a e s r d n n f m s t u 

n i r o e n i i r e h r y 

i e a f t o a a u s a e a 

a s w t u o h t s i r t d 

r r d w r e c p l r k u s 

g u r a n s h a r p r p r 

t p a r s t i c f r d m u 

i s h e n d t u r u a o h 

n a n c a r p e t s r c T 

t g r i e v r u c k r a m 

c r n m a u e s r u n i y 

a i u u y g t e a y l n e 

p t a e k y a d r u t a S 


8. (a) surprise, computer 

(b) Return, captain 

(c) mark, carpet 

9. harm, mark, shark, sharp, purse, 

nurse 


U nit 1 

0 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘oi’, ‘sh’ and ‘ay’ 

• months of the year 

• days of the week 

DICTATION 

1. I should finish painting the 

kennel on Friday. 

2. Her singing voice was more like 

noise than music. 

3. Add oil and salt to the water 

when it starts to boil. 

4. There had been more than one 

car crash during July. 


1. Discuss the word origins of the 

days of the week. 

2. List other words that end in ‘ic’. 

For example, picnic, comic, 

classic. 

3. Discuss the sound the ‘a’ makes 

in the word ‘salt’. List other 

words where this also occurs. 

For example, malt, alter. Are 

there any similarities? 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) shell (b) shell 

(c) fresh (d) oil 

2. (a) point, during, finish or 

insect 

(b) soil (c) during 

(d) crash (e) finish 

(f) shell (g) voice 

(h) bush 

2 

3. 

k 

20 

S 

16 

T 

u 

1 

F 

r 

J u n e 

3 

i 

n 

d 

n 

4 

W e d n e s d a y b e 

5 

y o i l 

6 

p i 

7 

c J 

10 

s o i l 

8 

9 

r 

11 

m u s i c i 

13 

d a l 

12 

n 

14 

n o i 

15 

s e 

u e s d a y 

17 

s a l t h 

r h 

e 

f r e s h 

18 

i 

19 

v o i c e i l 

n d a y 

t 

n l 

g 

i 

21 

b u s h 

h 

LIST 

oil 

boil 

soil 

point 

noise 

voice 

salt 

insect 

kennel 

June 

July 

during 

music 

shell 

bush 

fresh 

finish 

crash 

Tuesday 

Wednesday 

Friday 

Sunday 

4. (a) voice (b) crash 

(c) salt (d) noise 

5. (a) kennel (b) boil 

(c) music (d) Friday 

(e) fresh (f) during 

(g) insect (h) Sunday 

(i) crash (j) finish 

(k) oil (l) point 

6. (a) head (b) finish 

(c) more (d) asleep 

(e) fresh (f) evening 

7. (a) insect (b) stone 

(c) oil (d) gone 

(e) funny (f) tale 

(g) finish (h) soil 

8. (a) crash (b) salt 

(c) bush (d) soil 

WORD BUILDING 

oils, oiled, oiling, oily, oilier, 

oiliest, oilskin 

boils, boiled, boiling, boiler 

soils, soiled, soiling 

points, pointed, pointing, 

pointedly, pointer 

noises, noisy, noisier, noisiest, 

noisily, noiseless, noiselessly 

voices, voiced, voicing 

salts, salted, salting, salty, saltier, 

saltiest 

insects, insecticide 

kennels 

musical, musically, musician 

shells, shelled, shelling, shellfish, 

seashell 

bushes, bushy 

freshen, freshness, refresh 

finishes, finished, finishing 

crashes, crashed, crashing 

Tuesdays 

Wednesdays 

Fridays 

Sundays 

REVISION 







evening (11) 

scroll (5) 

paw (14) 

inside (15) 

word (16) 

tale (4) 

apple (7) 

butter (10) 

why (13) 

funny (12) 

head (18) 

church (2) 

blank (3) 

asleep (17) 

stone (5) 

more (15) 

gone (13) 

age (4) 


9. 

i v t F s d a y e d w e d 

S e o l r j c i s u m y e 

u y o i u i h s e r f a s 

n a d u c i d s e i h d s 

d d J u n e i a e n s s h 

a s f l j n l t y g a e e 

y e i y i y l u J k r u l 

e n n f l a i n s e c T l 

d d i e s i o n t n r u d 

w e s e s t s r h n g d a 

o W h s a a e s c e i b y 

i i n t l s u f i l n o s 

l o p t h b b o i l s l p 


10. (a) kennel, shell, scroll, apple, 

butter, funny, asleep 

(b) June, July 

(c) during, evening 

(d) oil, salt, apple, butter 

(e) crash 

11. crash, during, insect, July, June, 

kennel, music, oil, point, salt, 

shell, voice

19 

18 

14 

3 

6 

17 

12 

8 

1 

15 

2 

13 

5 

7 

4 

9 10 11 

16 

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘or’, ‘oo’ and ‘sh’ 

• trigraph ‘ore’ 

• initial blends ‘st’, ‘sp’, ‘tr’ and ‘br’ 

DICTATION 

1. The store is just around the 

corner from the airport. 

2. What sort of corn did you 

order? 

3. He made his sore leg worse by 

playing sport for forty minutes. 

4. The only way to get the balloon 

out of the pool is to use a 

broom. 


1. List other words that have ‘or’ in 

them, but make the sound ‘er’. 

For example, worse, worm. Are 

there any similarities? 

2. Find other ‘oo’ words. Sort 

them into words that sound 

like ‘oo’ as in ‘book’ and those 

that sound like ‘oo’ as in ‘zoo’. 


ANSWERS 

1. sort, mushroom, form 

2. car, cart, rot, rat, tart, oat, coat 

etc. 

3. 

a 

s p o r 

o 

o r d e r 

e 

i 

m u s h 

t 

r 

p 

o o m 

a o 

c l 

f o r t y 

o 

b r o o m 

r 

p 

s 

o 

r 

t 

f 

o r t 

r 

g 

e 

t o r 

f 

o 

r 

m 

c 

o 

r 

n 

p 

f 

o 

b 

a s s w 

l 

l 

o r c e 

o 

n o r t 

o 

r n e r 

c 

s h 

o r d 

h 

o 

r 

s 

t 

o 

r 

e 

LIST 

form 

storm 

corn 

corner 

sort 

sport 

torch 

north 

sore 

shore 

store 

order 

forget 

force 

forty 

airport 

tractor 

mushroom 

broom 

pool 

balloon 

password 

WORD BUILDING 

forms, formed, forming, 

formative 

storms, stormed, storming, 

stormy, stormier, stormiest 

corners, cornered, cornering 

sorts, sorted, sorting 

sports, sporting, sportsperson, 

sporty 

torches 

northern, northerly 

sores 

shores 

stores, stored, storing, 

storehouse 

orders, ordered, ordering 

forgets, forgot, forgetting, 

forgotten 

forces, forced, forcing, forceful, 

forcible 

forties, fortieth, fortieths 

airports 

tractors 

mushrooms, mushroomed, 

mushrooming 

brooms 

pools, pooled, pooling 

balloons, ballooned, ballooning 

passwords 

4. (a) Shine your torch into that 

corner! 

(b) It was hard for him to forget 

the terror of the storm. 


6. (a) pretty 

(b) grandmother 

(c) great or nice 

(d) forget 

(e) north 

(f) last 

7. (a) shore (b) sore 

(c) fire (d) store 

8. (a) sure (b) shore 

(c) saw 

REVISION 







pretty (12) 

spray (1) 

nice (6) 

little (7) 

crow (8) 

grandmother(15) 

hook (17) 

bread (18) 

rabbit (11) 

stalk (14) 

once (14) 

seven (17) 

flower (3) 

fire (6) 

last (10) 

great (16) 

cries (18) 

cave (4) 


9. 

U nit 1 

m e s t r o p r i a t b b 

r s h o r e p g s i h a r 

o r e d r o a e t e g l o 

c o p l k t s t o c i l o 

o t o r c h s m r r n o m 

r r o t f k w o e o m o o 

n a l r r o o o e f r n f 

e c c o r z r r n r o c o 

r t f p k y d h o m t t r 

a o r s c t t s r h s s g 

y r o o r r n u t s y e e 

t r n r o o g m h g e t t 

e y c h t f o r m o l o y 


10. (a) flower, flowers 

(b) cry, cries 

(c) store, stores 

(d) torch, torches 

(e) order, orders 

11. (a) forty (b) seven 

(c) corner (d) order 

(e) flower (f) airport 

(g) mushroom (h) forget 

(i) tractor (j) little 

1

U nit 1 

LIST FOCUS 

• phoneme ‘o’ as in ‘won’ 

• double consonants ‘dd’, ‘tt’ 

and ‘rr’ 

• words ending in ‘le’ 

DICTATION 

1. I wonder how much money a 

holiday to the island costs? 

2. Put the honey on the shelf 

above the bottle. 

3. None of us enjoyed the terrible 

flight on the aeroplane. 

4. On Monday, we are going to 

visit a castle in the middle of 

the town. 


1. Focus on the ‘o’ in many of the 

list words, and the ‘u’ sound it 

makes, compared to words like 

‘got’ and ‘dog’. 

2. Find other words that end in ‘le’. 

For example, puddle, little, 

horrible, saddle. 

3. Discuss the silent ‘s’ in ‘island’. 

Make a class list of other words 

with silent letters. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) aeroplane (b) monkey 

(c) Monday (d) cattle 

(e) island (f ) honey 

(g) download 

2. 

14 

m 

7 

8 

i 

s c 

l a 

a t 

n t 

i d d l e 

e 

9 

a s t l e n o n 

11 

2 

2 

3 

4 

5 

1 

w o n 

g 

a o 

b e c o m e m n 

b 

v 

o d 

o 

e 

6 

m o n k e y 

t 

r o g r 

e 

10 

a 

l M e 

12 

t e 

e 

13 

h o n e y e r 

n 

r o 

d 

15 

d 

16 

b r p 

17 

a b o v e i l 

y w l b a 

n o l n 

l 

18 

n e e d l e 

o g 

a 

19 

f 

i d d l e 

3. (a) terrible (b) bottle 

(c) middle (d) won 

(e) wonder (f ) download 

(g) cattle (h) govern 

LIST 

won 

wonder 

among 

monkey 

money 

honey 

none 

above 

Monday 

govern 

become 

belong 

castle 

fiddle 

cattle 

middle 

needle 

bottle 

terrible 

aeroplane 

island 

download 

WORD BUILDING 

(i) fiddle (j) among 

(k) become (l) above 

(m) monkey (n) none 

wonders, wondered, wondering, 

wonderful, wondrous 

amongst 

monkeys 

moneys, monetary 

honeyed, honeycomb 

Mondays 

governs, governed, governing, 

governor, government 

becomes, became, becoming 

belongs, belonged, belonging 

castles 

fiddles, fiddled, fiddling, fiddler 

middles 

needles 

bottles, bottled, bottling 

aeroplanes 

islands, islander 

downloads, downloaded, 

downloading 

4. aeroplane, become, belong, 

castle, download, island, middle, 

monkey, needle, none, terrible, 

won 

5. (a) table (b) blue 

(c) nothing (d) monkey 

(e) middle (f) terrible 

(g) mail (h) above 

REVISION 







disc (1) 

watch (14) 

never (17) 

myself (15) 

pair (13) 

site (6) 

nothing (9) 

past (10) 

club (2) 

going (13) 

blue (11) 

table (7) 

birthday (4) 

second (5) 

toe (9) 

mail (6) 

stairs (13) 

floor (16) 


6. 

h n o t e r r i b l e c m 

i o a b o v e h o n m a o 

s g n d o w n l o a d s n 

l n e e g n o l e b n t e 

a o e w y a d n o M e l y 

e m d d n a l s i o y e d 

l a l o e n a l p o r e a 

d y e n l e l d d i f r n 

d e c a t t l e g a e n r 

i k e d t s a c o d o o e 

m n e m o c e b n t c n v 

n o w r b l a o t l e e o 

a m e r o p w n h e b e g 


7. (a) tea, ten, tin, win 

(b) rice, nice, nine, none 

8. (a) become (b) won 

(c) castle (d) nothing 

(e) bottle (f ) none 

(g) myself (h) table 

(i) second (j) island

LIST FOCUS 

• words using ‘igh’ and ‘augh’ 

• phoneme ‘a’ as in ‘path’ 

• digraph ‘ce’ 

DICTATION 

1. The naughty prince tried to run 

down the path. 

2. Ever since he started his new 

job, he has been able to travel 

through the countryside. 

3. The bright lights that shone on 

the stage during the dance 

were quite a sight to see. 

4. Michael caught eight flies 

without seeming to move 

much at all. 


1. List other words where the ‘s’ 

sound is spelt ‘ce’. For example, 

cent, centipede, fence. 

2. Use a dictionary to find other 

words with the prefix ‘tri’. 

3. List other words that have a 

masculine and feminine form, 

like ‘prince’ and ‘princess’. Which 

ones are politically correct? 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) keyboard, screen 

(b) dull, yell, princess 

(c) heart, cheek 

2. (a) prince, since, young, gather, 

heart, through, bright, 

triangle, eight, travel, tried, 

path, flies, slipped, sudden, 

move 

(b) sight, naughty, caught, 

dance, princess, keyboard 

1 2 

3 

3. f l i e s 

t 

4 5 

6 

8 

9 

11 

16 

l y t 

h e a r t 

i o r 

r 

p u i 

7 

m o v e 

p r i n c e s s u 

e g d i g 

10 

p 

s u d d e n 

12 

g a t h e r 

13 

e h 

i 

14 

b r i g h t 

n 

g 

c 

15 

c 

h 

t r a v e l 

17 

n a u g h t y 

u 

18 

k e y b o a r d 

g 

19 

d 

20 

p a t h 

a 

21 

t r i a n g l e 

c 

22 

s i n c e 

LIST 

bright 

sight 

eight 

naughty 

caught 

path 

gather 

through 

dance 

since 

prince 

princess 

heart 

move 

young 

triangle 

travel 

tried 

flies 

slipped 

sudden 

keyboard 

WORD BUILDING 

brighter, brightest, brightly, 

brighten, brightened, 

brightening 

sights, sighted, sighting, 

unsightly 

eights, eighth, eighths 

naughtier, naughtiest, naughtily 

paths, pathway 

gathers, gathered, gathering 

throughout 

dances, danced, dancing, 

dancer 

princes, princely 

princesses 

hearts, hearten, heartbeat 

moves, moved, moving, mover 

younger, youngest 

triangles, triangular 

travels, travelled, travelling, 

traveller 

suddenly 

keyboards 

4. (a) move (b) travel 

(c) slipped (d) sudden 

(e) path 

5. (a) paper (b) where 

(c) school (d) heart 

(e) letter or paper 

(f) path 

6. (a) push (b) princess 

(c) morning (d) break 

(e) caught (f ) yell 

(g) young (h) lady 

7. (a) dull (b) begin 

(c) felt (d) slipped 

(e) naughty (f ) gather 

(g) might (h) trip or travel 

8. (a) ate (b) through 

(c) eight (d) threw 

REVISION 







morning (14) 

screen (2) 

paper (16) 

dull (17) 

yell (9) 

lady (12) 

fort (4) 

school (14) 

break (16) 

cheek (17) 

felt (1) 

begin (3) 

where (13) 

ago (11) 

push (11) 

trip (7) 

might (8) 

letter (10) 


9. 

U nit 1 

t r i a n g l e e n h e a 

e o g h t h g i r b r t p 

s e v o r m s d r p t h r 

l n n s i t g a t h e r i 

i e e e e h s n n e v o n 

p d c i d g y c c a o u c 

p d n l h u o e e r m g e 

e u i f n a u g h t y h l 

d s s t t c n e v a r h v 

g e p h y o g e i g h t e 

a e g i l e v a r t r a e 

t i h r s s e c n i r p h 

s p e n u d r a o b y e k 


10. (a) dance, young 

(b) slipped, path 

(c) travel, eight 

(d) keyboard, since 

3 

11. bright, dance, eight, flies, 

gather, heart, move, prince, 

slipped, sudden, travel, young

U nit 1 

LIST FOCUS 

• words ending in ‘le’ 

• initial blends ‘st’ and ‘str’ 

• trigraphs ‘ear’ and ‘wor’ 

DICTATION 

1. The earth shook as the strong 

giant trampled through the 

forest. 

2. I’ve heard that a lot of people 

at our school are connected to 

the Internet. 

3. Would you like to learn how to 

make your desktop a strange 

colour? 

4. If we got up early, we were able 

to listen to the birds singing. 


1. List other words which are 

associated with computer 

technology. For example, 

monitor, email. 

2. Discuss the various meanings 

of the word ‘station’. 

3. List as many synonyms for the 

word ‘strange’ as the class can 

think of. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) strong (b) people 

(c) station (d) worm 

(e) early (f ) able 

2. inter, net, tree, ten, in, tent, tee 

etc. 

3. 

4 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

f 

s 

o 

g 

t d e s k t o p r l 

i 

r 

a 

e e e 

a 

i n t e r n e t o s t a t i o n 

n 

t 

10 

p o s t r 

t 

g 

h 

l 

n 

11 

c 

12 

c 

13 14 

a b l e 

15 

w o 

a 

i 

16 

e 

17 

h 

l 

m 

18 

s t r a n g e 

19 

w o 

e 

21 

A u g u s t r a 

u 

r 

e l r 

r 

a 

22 

s t r o n g y d 

4. (a) ear, art 

(b) list, is, ten 

(c) for, or, rest, ore, fore 

(d) an, ran 

r m 

r l 

20 

d 

u 

s 

t 

LIST 

able 

people 

dust 

post 

listen 

forest 

August 

station 

giant 

strange 

strong 

string 

learn 

heard 

early 

earth 

desktop 

Internet 

world 

worm 

colour 

camera 

WORD BUILDING 

enable, ability, disable, disabled, 

disabling, disability, unable 

peoples 

dusts, dusted, dusting, dusty, 

duster 

posts, posted, posting, poster 

listens, listened, listening, 

listener 

forests, forestation 

stations, stationed, stationing 

giants 

stranger, strangest, strangely, 

estranged 

stronger, strongest, strength, 

strongly 

strings, stringed, stringing 

learns, learned, learning, learner 

earlier, earliest 

earthy, earthly, earthen 

desktops 

5. (a) listen (b) desktop 

(c) early (d) string 

(e) giant (f) strong 

(g) able (h) dust 

(i) world (j) learn 

worlds, worldly 

worms, wormed, worming 

colours, coloured, colouring, 

colourful 

cameras, camerawork 

6. (a) Matthew took some 

beautiful pictures with his 

new camera in the forest. 

(b) The chair was painted a 

strange colour. 

(c) Although it was early, she 

was already on the Internet. 


REVISION 







catch (2) 

hear (3) 

began (3) 

broke (5) 

hung (17) 

doctor (18) 

afternoon (10) 

would (12) 

fence (18) 

father (10) 

white (6) 

skip (7) 

rung (17) 

hair (13) 

race (4) 

four (9) 

talk (14) 

number (16) 


8. 

l p h n o i t a t s c t c 

o e e e g n a r t s a c o 

t m a i s n r a e l m o l 

s t r o n g m g r t e l o 

u p d r a p l n o s r w u 

g e n t e r n e t a o r 

u o s g n i k c o t s r o 

A b l e a e a l s o g m d 

n e t s i l r e d t n h l 

p p u g g p r d s e i h r 

o t s u d o s o r a r t o 

s e t a f e p e a r t h w 

y l r a e p p o t k s e d 


9. (a) August (b) giant 

(c) worm (d) Internet 

(e) string 

10. (a) dust, post, forest, August, 

giant, Internet 

(b) Internet, desktop 

(c) listen, heard 

(d) dust, post, strong, string, 

world, worm 

(e) able, August, early, earth, 

Internet

LIST FOCUS 

• trigraph ‘war’ 

• words using ‘ough’ 

• numbers 

DICTATION 

1. During the war, not many 

people had new clothes to 

wear. 

2. One hundred people were 

needed to build the hospital. 

3. She thought a warm bath 

would make her feel less tired. 

4. During November, they bought 

themselves twelve new 

computer games. 


1. List rhyming words for ‘wear’. 

Discuss the range of spelling 

patterns that make the same 

sound. For example, ‘air’, ‘are’. 

2. Discuss the changes that are 

made to the word ‘twelve’ in 

word building. 

3. Discuss the other months of 

the year, and any other words 

that have the same word origin. 

For example, October, octopus; 

December, decimal. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) bridge, enjoy, eleven 

2. (a) war, warm, wear 

(b) barcode, file, twelve, bridge 

(c) bridge, hospital 

3. 

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war 

warm 

thought 

bought 

brought 

barcode 

clothes 

together 

themselves 

build 

file 

fifth 

fifty 

eleven 

twelve 

hundred 

enjoy 

November 

wear 

bridge 

hospital 

tired 

WORD BUILDING 

wars, warred, warring, warfare 

warms, warmed, warming, 

warmer, warmest 

thoughts 

barcodes, barcoded, barcoding 

togetherness 

4. (a) wear (b) warm 

(c) tired (d) war 

5. (a) fifth fifths 

(b) wear wears 

(c) barcode barcodes 

(d) enjoy enjoys 

(e) bridge bridges 

6. (a) kind (b) outside 

(c) right (d) summer 

(e) warm (f ) bought 

7. (a) war (b) slice 

(c) drank (d) build 

(e) wear (f ) enjoy 

8. (a) Where (b) wear 

(c) we’re 

builds, built, building, builder 

files, filed, filing 

fifths 

fifties, fiftieth, fiftieths 

elevens, eleventh, elevenths 

twelves, twelfth, twelfths 

hundreds, hundredth, 

hundredths 

enjoys, enjoyed, enjoying, 

enjoyable 

wears, wore, wearing, wearable, 

underwear 

bridges, bridged, bridging 

hospitals, hospitalise, 

hospitalised, hospitalising 

tires, tiring 

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REVISION 







euro (1) 

drank (3) 

slice (6) 

other (9) 

right (8) 

open (18) 

somebody (15) 

know (13) 

find (11) 

party (12) 

crisp (7) 

chase (5) 

grass (10) 

outside (15) 

wind (17) 

metre (2) 

summer (16) 

kind (11) 


9. 

f b t w e l v e h o t N e 

i o r y e e w l u c h o s 

f r t o v v e e n e t v a 

t g o j u w a l d d h e l 

y t g n n g r i r o e m a 

u b e e e t h f e c m b t 

t s t n v i i t d r s e i 

h e h e e l d r a a e r p 

g h e w l h l w e b l t s 

u t r a e t i o n d v o o 

o o w r b o u g h t e g h 

h l e j o l b y h t s i f 

t c f i f t h e g d i r b 


5 

10. (a) film, firm, farm, warm 

(b) tame, tale, tile, file 

11. (a) war, arm 

(b) to, get, he, her, the 

(c) them, he, hem, hems, elves 

(d) cloth, clothe, the, he, lot, clot 

(e) we, ear 

(f) part, par, art 

(g) me, met 

(h) sum, me

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LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘er’ and ‘ie’ 

• double consonants ‘dd’, ‘tt’, ‘bb’, 

‘pp’ and ‘rr’ 

DICTATION 

1. The robber was caught going 

down the ladder with a bag full 

of silver. 

2. For dessert, there was a choice 

of orange and banana pudding 

or carrot cake. 

3. She loved to eat fruit, but she 

hated every kind of vegetable 

except carrot. 

4. Every person was quiet as the 

group walked past the danger 

sign. 


1. Brainstorm a list of other fruits 

and vegetables that are 

difficult to spell. 

2. Discuss the difference between 

the vowel sound in ‘quiet’ and 

‘dried’. Find other examples of 

similar words. For example, diet, 

lied. 

3. Make sentences using the word 

building forms of ‘person’. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) silver (b) robber 

(c) orange (d) slippers 

(e) finger (f ) ladder 

(g) pudding 

2. 

6 

1 

2 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

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l 

b a n a n a 

d 

d 

f 

e v 

d 

s i l v e r e s 

f r u i t n 

g u 

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g 

10 

q e p 

e 

e 

11 

q u i e t p e 

14 

d 

15 

a n g e r a a e 

n 

r u b b e r 

17 

m a s t e r 

t l 

18 

o 

w 

e e r 

19 

S e p t 

20 

e m b e r 

a 

r 

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n 

t 

g 

21 

c a r r o t 

e 

e 

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r o b b e r 

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s 

LIST 

September 

answer 

danger 

finger 

master 

quarter 

silver 

ladder 

matter 

robber 

rubber 

supper 

slippers 

quiet 

dried 

fruit 

orange 

banana 

vegetable 

carrot 

pudding 

person 

WORD BUILDING 

3. (a) vegetable (b) banana 

(c) quiet (d) dried 

(e) danger (f) finger 

(g) ladder (h) rubber 

4. (a) danger (b) mother 

(c) answer (d) real 

(e) quiet (f) soft 

5. (a) person (b) quarter 

(c) tear (d) chair 

answers, answered, answering, 

unanswered, unanswerable 

dangers, dangerous, 

endangered 

fingers, fingernail 

masters, mastered, mastering, 

masterful, masterpiece 

quarters, quartered, quartering, 

quarterly 

silvery, silversmith 

ladders, laddered, stepladder 

matters, mattered, mattering 

robbers, robbery 

rubbery 

suppers 

quieter, quietest, quietly, 

quieten 

6. (a) robber (b) pudding 

fruits, fruity, fruiterer, fruitful, 

grapefruit 

oranges 

bananas 

vegetables 

carrots 

puddings 

persons, personal, personable, 

personality, salesperson 

REVISION 







kick (7) 

climb (18) 

mother (9) 

real (1) 

soft (3) 

tear (4) 

those (5) 

time (6) 

body (12) 

chair (13) 

draw (14) 

care (18) 

woke (5) 

around (8) 

bath (10) 

about (11) 

strap (2) 

goes (13) 

r e m a s t e r t i u r f 

e s g n d r e m w s n v e 

d l n s a e g n a r o e g 

d i d w c a r r o t a t n 

a p r e b b o r r g t a o 

l p i r r e t e e n e e s 

r e e r q u a t g i g b r 

e r d a n g e r n d r s e 

v s g n r f i a i d e u p 

l a n a n a b u f u b p t 

i r g t e i u q f p b p o 

S e p t e m b e r d u e s 

f e l b a t e g e v r r u 



7. 

8. (a) silver (b) person 

(c) ladder (d) finger 

(e) fruit (f ) master 

9. (a) orange, banana 

(b) September 

(c) quiet, fruit, carrot, soft, 

about 

(d) danger 

10. (a) silver, finger 

(b) robber, quiet 

(c) quarter, pudding

LIST FOCUS 

• digraphs ‘ou’ (touch) and ‘ie’ 

(piece) 

• common words 

DICTATION 

1. When I went to the country to 

visit my cousin, I saw a wild 

swan swimming on the lake. 

2. The piece of steak looked big 

enough to feed two people. 

3. We could see a grey wolf at the 

other end of the field. 

4. The car might have looked 

beautiful, but its engine was 

always causing him trouble. 


1. Write the homophones for ‘sew’ 

(so) and ‘piece’ (peace) and 

‘steak’ (stake) in sentences. 

2. Find rhyming words for ‘grey’, 

‘iron’ and ‘swan’. Note the range 

of spellings that produce the 

same sounds. 

3. Write other words that contain 

‘ou’, but make a different sound. 

For example, could, found. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) steak (b) grey 

(c) swan (d) sew 

(e) board (f) wild 

2. (a) touch 

(b) whole or whose 

(c) soldier 

(d) board 

(e) piece 

3. 

1 2 

b 

s e w 

d i f f e r e n t 

4 

w t 

a 

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g r e y 

10 

p 

11 

t o u 

12 

c h 

s 

14 

w i r o 

15 

b 

16 

w h o s e o u o 

a l 

17 

c o u s i n a 

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n 

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touch 

trouble 

country 

cousin 

enough 

piece 

field 

chief 

whole 

whose 

wild 

swan 

grey 

wolf 

steak 

iron 

engine 

soldier 

different 

board 

sew 

beautiful 

WORD BUILDING 

touches, touched, touching, 

touchingly, touchable, 

untouchable 

troubles, troubled, troubling 

countries 

cousins 

pieces 

fields 

chiefs, chiefly 

wholes, wholly 


5. (a) soldier (b) engine 

(c) before (d) cousin 

(e) enough (f ) dinner 

(g) someone 

6. (a) piece (b) enough 

(c) horse (d) house 

(e) afraid (f ) field 

(g) many (h) engine 

7. (a) hole 

(b) whole, bored 

(c) steak 

(d) stake 

wilds, wilder, wildest 

swans 

greys, greyed, greying, greyish 

wolves 

steaks 

irons, ironed, ironing 

engines 

soldiers, soldiered, soldiering 

differently, differentiate 

boards, boarded, boarding 

sews, sewed, sewing, sewer 

beautifully 

U nit 1 

REVISION 







river (16) 

most (17) 

horse (4) 

yesterday (1) 

before (3) 

house (5) 

hike (6) 

another (9) 

dinner (10) 

many (12) 

fair (13) 

wash (14) 

someone (15) 

only (18) 

laser (2) 

afraid (6) 

these (14) 

friend (16) 


8. 

f i e l d e a k e e c d r 

e n o u g h s t l g h i e 

w a k n d l i w b i i f f 

e s a b o a r d u n e f l 

l o e h w t f l o w f e u 

y r t n u o c i r o n r f 

w e s i g u e c t r n e i 

h i p h u c p c y a t n t 

o d g n o h o i w u n t u 

l l e r i s u s e o e c a 

e o t n e s o h w c l b e 

o s e k c y h t r o e u b 

u c o u s i n e n g i n e 


9. (a) swan (b) iron 

(c) soldier (d) sew 

(e) cousin (f) country 

7 

10. another, country, cousin, dinner, 

engine, fair, field, laser, piece, 

swan, wild, wolf

1 

5 6 

15 

13 

9 

10 11 

17 18 

14 

19 

20 

3 4 

7 

16 

21 

8 

12 

2 

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LIST FOCUS 

• digraph ‘ea’ (breakfast) 

• words beginning with ‘al’ 

• common words 

DICTATION 

1. When we finally went upstairs, 

breakfast had already been 

served. 

2. Within minutes, the weather 

became much worse, so we 

stayed home and watched 

television instead. 

3. My uncle’s lawn always looks 

dead, but all he does is laugh 

about it. 

4. After we waved goodbye to the 

elephant and its keeper, we 

decided there was nothing else 

we wanted to see at the zoo. 


1. List other words that have the 

prefix ‘tele’. Discuss what they 

have in common. 

2. Brainstorm a list of other 

difficult words in English like 

‘sugar’ that sound different 

from the way they are spelt. 

3. Discuss the difference in 

meaning between the verb 

‘weather’ and the noun 

‘weather’. 


ANSWERS 

1. (a) lips, laps, laws, lawn 

(b) chap, chat, coat, goat 

2. (a) scared (b) lawn 

(c) pencil (d) dead 

(e) goal 

3. 

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g o o d b y e 

m i n u t e s 

r 

g u e l s e 

h g 

a 

a 

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r 

f g 

w 

a e 

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g s o 

l a w n a l m o s t g 

t s l a 

r 

d h t w e l e p h a 

e e e a 

p 

a l r e a d y 

p h 

d 

d s c a r e d y 

n 

o f f i c e 

i 

t e l e v i 

n 

s 

p 

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t 

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s 

t 

a 

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s 

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LIST 

almost 

always 

already 

breakfast 

dead 

instead 

weather 

else 

goal 

elephant 

geography 

lawn 

scared 

goodbye 

picture 

pencil 

office 

minutes 

laugh 

television 

upstairs 

sugar 

WORD BUILDING 

breakfasts, breakfasted, 

breakfasting 

deadly, deadlier, deadliest 

elsewhere 

goals 

elephants, elephantine 

geographically 

lawns 

goodbyes 

pictures, pictured, picturing 

pencils, pencilled, pencilling 

offices, officer, official 

laughs, laughed, laughing, 

laughter, laughingly 

televisions 

sugars, sugared, sugaring, 

sugary 

4. (a) Our family always has bacon 

and eggs for breakfast. 

(b) Joshua waved goodbye as 

he walked across the lawn. 

(c) According to the television 

report, the weather will be 

sunny tomorrow. 

5. (a) upstairs (b) done 

(c) loud (d) blow 

(e) always (f) dead 

(g) goodbye (h) laugh 

6. (a) done (b) laugh 

(c) like (d) almost 

(e) lawn (f) loud 

(g) scared (h) goodbye 

REVISION 







format (3) 

sale (4) 

minute (5) 

tomorrow (8) 

thorn (18) 

something (15) 

garden (14) 

ready (12) 

part (18) 

along (11) 

kept (4) 

bear (17) 

while (6) 

done (7) 

blow (8) 

like (9) 

loud (8) 

thank (3) 


7. 

b r s c a r e d l w a n m 

p l e l e p h a n t l a i 

i a w e w e e e n w a l n 

c k e a t h l t a i u m u 

t l a l w a y s t s g o t 

u i t r h g e n e p h s e 

r c h w t d u i r e u t s 

e n e a c e y b d o o g r 

f e r y d a e r l a a g a 

a p v g i d o f f i c e g 

t g e o g r a p h y p r u 

b r e a k f a s t g y a s 

s t e l e v i s i o n p h 


8. tee, vision, son, live, noise, vine 

etc. 

9. (a) elephant, lawn 

(b) sugar 

(c) always, minutes, upstairs 

10. lawn, scared, sugar

Following are lists of all words used in the My Spelling Workbook series. 

BOOK A 

UNIT 1 

an, ran, man, fan, pan, can, log, dog, fog, jog 

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UNIT 2 

UNIT 3 

UNIT 4 

UNIT 5 

UNIT 6 

UNIT 7 

UNIT 8 

UNIT 9 

UNIT 10 

UNIT 11 

UNIT 12 

UNIT 13 

UNIT 14 

UNIT 15 

UNIT 16 

UNIT 17 

UNIT 18 

in, pin, tin, bin, win, hot, not, lot, pot, got 

bad, dad, sad, had, pad, mad, big, pig, dig, wig 

sip, lip, tip, hip, rip, pip, zip, am, jam, ham 

bat, cat, sat, fat, mat, rat, hat, up, cup, pup 

it, bit, pit, hit, fit, sit, bag, tag, rag, wag 

met, net, pet, get, wet, vet, let, mop, hop, top 

cap, gap, rap, map, tap, mix, fix, six, box, fox 

cut, hut, but, nut, rut, bed, red, fed, is, his 

bun, fun, sun, run, of, leg, beg, peg, or, for 

jug, rug, mug, hug, bug, hen, pen, men, ten, the 

he, me, we, be, she, gum, hum, sum, yes, no 

as, has, my, sky, by, cry, lid, hid, rid, did 

meet, feed, seed, deep, bee, feet, need, see, us, bus 

food, room, moon, soon, boot, to, do, into, on, off 

fish, wish, dish, shin, ship, shop, are, one, him, want 

cook, look, foot, book, took, come, some, if, then, this 

cow, how, now, said, were, was, when, very, give, mum 



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BOOK B 

UNIT 1 

end, send, bend, mend, lend, spend, grow, slow, show, bump, jump, lump, pump, camp, stamp 

UNIT 2 

UNIT 3 

UNIT 4 

UNIT 5 

UNIT 6 

UNIT 7 

UNIT 8 

UNIT 9 

UNIT 10 

UNIT 11 

UNIT 12 

UNIT 13 

UNIT 14 

UNIT 15 

UNIT 16 

UNIT 17 

UNIT 18 

go, so, flag, glad, slip, swim, pram, drum, drop, drip, spot, from, help, left, out 

add, and, land, sand, hand, band, duck, truck, rock, clock, neck, black, sick, lick, sock 

pest, rest, best, must, lost, cost, nest, stop, stand, wool, wood, good, day, week, year 

ant, disk, milk, desk, pole, hole, mole, sole, shut, shed, shot, sheep, smash, crush, brush 

kite, drive, side, nine, five, ride, like, line, hide, went, dent, bent, tent, sent, lent 

hill, fill, still, mill, till, will, been, tree, green, sweep, sleep, street, here, they, have 

bell, sell, well, fell, tell, spell, doll, thing, swing, sing, bring, long, bang, sang, hang 

chop, chin, much, rich, such, punch, lunch, chick, miss, dress, mess, loss, toss, cross, you 

three, thin, thick, moth, cloth, with, cake, wake, take, gate, ate, name, came, gave, game 

fern, her, under, ever, saw, never, make, live, spoon, tooth, zoo, roof, cool, snack, back 

car, star, arm, farm, hard, far, start, bone, tone, home, rope, hope, note, cone, just 

leaf, sea, tea, meat, seat, clean, eat, read, mean, boy, toy, joy, than, that, them 


all, ball, call, fall, hall, wall, tall, small, sky, dry, try, fly, each, teach, beach 

coat, boat, float, toast, load, road, loaf, soak, goat, ink, sink, drink, think, pink, wink 

tray, say, may, stay, way, play, hay, lay, pay, girl, first, third, bird, shirt, dirt 

fork, born, for, forgot, torn, short, whip, which, hold, gold, sold, told, fold, cold, old 

owl, frown, down, town, brown, clown, rain, train, tail, bait, wait, sail, nail, snail, main 


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BOOK C 

UNIT 1 

UNIT 2 

UNIT 3 

UNIT 4 

UNIT 5 

UNIT 6 

UNIT 7 

UNIT 8 

UNIT 9 

UNIT 10 

cable, data, input, job, output, disc, save, 

spray, belt, felt, seal, real, fear, bay, euro, 

today, yesterday, away 

text, boss, lift, screen, strap, pasta, catch, 

church, club, flat, plan, plant, laser, slept, 

remote, metre, gram, litre 

there, flip, flower, song, soft, format, solid, 

blank, bank, drank, thank, because, began, 

begin, before, behind, your, hear 

face, race, place, made, age, cage, sale, tale, 

cave, cork, fort, horse, horn, wore, birthday, 

kept, month, tear 

held, hunt, icon, broke, woke, insert, stone, 

mobile, delete, chose, close, those, second, 

minute, hose, scroll, email, house 

ice, nice, slice, wife, life, hike, mile, while, 

time, fire, bite, site, white, water, afraid, 

again, mail, paint 

crop, trip, stuck, kick, deck, skip, skin, done, 

love, skate, egg, peanut, crisp, chip, table, 

little, apple, salad 

bigger, high, fight, light, might, right, night, 

please, leave, around, loud, blow, mow, 

window, yellow, tomorrow, own, crow 

four, frog, cent, yell, spring, use, other, 

another, brother, mother, cover, front, son, 

nothing, die, lie, tie, toe 

sister, letter, better, butter, dinner, child, fast, 

last, past, glass, class, grass, ask, bath, after, 

afternoon, father, our 

UNIT 11 

UNIT 12 

UNIT 13 

UNIT 14 

UNIT 15 

UNIT 16 

UNIT 17 

UNIT 18 

aunt, uncle, push, put, find, mind, kind, 

about, across, ago, along, rabbit, kitten, 

puppy, blue, does, even, evening 

could, would, should, any, many, baby, body, 

easy, lady, party, ready, rusty, pretty, happy, 

funny, carry, hello, nose 

where, why, what, who, goes, going, gone, 

air, pair, hair, chair, fair, fairy, stairs, kneel, 

know, knew, knife 

talk, walk, two, once, paw, draw, school, 

garden, getting, morning, new, these, their, 

stalk, wash, watch, buy, pull 

over, next, more, present, football, 

grandfather, grandmother, inside, outside, 

myself, herself, himself, somebody, 

someone, something, sometimes, holiday, 

bedroom 

door, poor, floor, eye, nearly, friend, says, 

paper, river, summer, winter, number, 

queen, quick, break, great, word, work 

shoe, seven, also, hook, dull, upon, rung, 

hung, wind, bear, peek, cheek, asleep, most, 

both, host, forever, clever 


fried, cried, cries, visit, fence, thorn, too, care, 

port, story, doctor, only, open, head, bread, 

large, climb, half 


L 

UNIT 1 

UNIT 2 

UNIT 3 

UNIT 4 

UNIT 5 

UNIT 6 

UNIT 7 

UNIT 8 

UNIT 9 

ist Words 

BOOK D 

UNIT 10 

lace, shade, safe, page, shake, snake, plane, 

base, case, chase, hate, mate, plate, brave, 

grapes, picnic, plum, comic, gift, grand, 

pants, pollute 

mice, rice, twice, shine, pipe, wire, rise, wise, 

quite, invite, dive, prize, arrive, thirty, 

thirteen, circus, pint, petrol, magic, lamp, 

weekend, fortnight 

rode, joke, smoke, poke, alone, wrote, write, 

wheel, steep, steel, sheet, creek, cheese, 

between, fourteen, fifteen, clay, often, act, 

April, kilogram, kilometre 

soap, loaves, count, hour, south, sound, 

shout, proud, mouse, thousand, mountain, 

basket, basketball, dentist, bottom, blind, 

being, animal, subtract, divide, multiply, 

modem 

few, threw, grew, flew, drew, blew, grown, 

follow, bow, bowl, below, begun, beside, 

bunch, branch, change, chimney, fetch, 

kitchen, lamb, thumb, monitor 

crack, track, brick, trick, ticket, cricket, 

chicken, packet, pocket, rocket, lock, block, 

flock, knock, luck, o’clock, pass, kiss, less, 

lesson, happen, film 

beak, heat, lead, meal, team, east, Easter, 

beads, beans, dream, cream, stream, speak, 

wheat, reach, really, leaves, season, blood, 

flood, until, lion 

family, nobody, busy, city, pony, tiny, angry, 

hungry, plenty, twenty, every, everyone, 

merry, hurry, sorry, jelly, silly, sunny, roll, 

smell, sure, menu 

software, hardware, laid, grain, chain, 

captain, against, harm, mark, sharp, shark, 

carpet, army, purse, nurse, return, curve, 

surprise, Saturday, Thursday, true, computer 

UNIT 11 

UNIT 12 

UNIT 13 

UNIT 14 

UNIT 15 

UNIT 16 

UNIT 17 

UNIT 18 

oil, boil, soil, point, noise, voice, salt, insect, 

kennel, June, July, during, music, shell, bush, 

fresh, finish, crash, Tuesday, Wednesday, 

Friday, Sunday 

form, storm, corn, corner, sort, sport, torch, 

north, sore, shore, store, order, forget, force, 

forty, airport, tractor, mushroom, broom, 

pool, balloon, password 

won, wonder, among, monkey, money, 

honey, none, above, Monday, govern, 

become, belong, castle, cattle, fiddle, 

middle, needle, bottle, terrible, aeroplane, 

island, download 

bright, sight, eight, naughty, caught, path, 

gather, through, dance, since, prince, 

princess, heart, move, young, triangle, 

travel, tried, flies, slipped, sudden, keyboard 

able, people, dust, post, listen, forest, 

August, station, giant, strange, strong, 

string, learn, heard, early, earth, desktop, 

Internet, world, worm, colour, camera 

war, warm, thought, bought, brought, 

barcode, clothes, together, themselves, 

build, file, fifth, fifty, eleven, twelve, 

hundred, enjoy, November, wear, bridge, 

hospital, tired 

September, answer, danger, finger, master, 

quarter, silver, ladder, matter, robber, 

rubber, supper, slippers, quiet, dried, fruit, 

orange, banana, vegetable, carrot, pudding, 

person 


touch, trouble, country, cousin, enough, 

piece, field, chief, whole, whose, wild, swan, 

grey, wolf, steak, iron, engine, soldier, 

different, board, sew, beautiful 

almost, always, already, breakfast, dead, 

instead, weather, else, goal, elephant, 

geography, lawn, scared, goodbye, picture, 

pencil, office, minutes, laugh, television, 

upstairs, sugar 


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UNIT 11 

space, spade, blade, blaze, stage, state, 

escape, shape, shave, slave, behave, 

damage, manage, message, village, voyage, 

bale, whale, tame, flame, taste, waste 

UNIT 12 

deal, steal, steam, scream, tease, neat, weak, 

cheap, peach, least, eager, eastern, loan, 

coast, roast, trunk, tour, recycle, cinema, 

millimetre, cursor, centimetre 

UNIT 13 

tribe, tide, smile, pile, price, vine, size, tore, 

score, choke, spoke, globe, dose, vote, stole, 

cloud, flour, scout, amount, found, drill, 

network 

UNIT 14 

beef, cheer, agree, keen, sixteen, sneeze, 

join, noisy, spoil, list, melt, stuff, stiff, sniff, 

patch, prey, press, print, shelf, reason, 

lemon, server 

UNIT 15 

herd, perhaps, interest, western, general, 

capital, stem, silk, public, flash, frost, worn, 

fortune, forgotten, history, report, 

important, error, motor, visitor, sailor, 

decide 

UNIT 16 

deaf, ahead, thread, spread, pleasant, 

pleasure, treasure, heavy, leather, health, 

tool, bloom, smooth, choose, tight, fright, 

midnight, cabin, basin, comb, crumb, video 

aim, aid, paid, pain, plain, remain, stain, hail, 

trail, fail, faint, certain, raise, railway, smart, 

market, march, charge, cargo, parcel, artist, 

collar 

allow, growl, drown, crown, crowd, powder, 

power, fare, stare, square, prison, bacon, 

apron, stock, bucket, beginning, rule, 

microwave, microchip, March, scan, 

calculator 

pure, figure, capture, nature, adventure, 

postage, cabbage, ribbon, address, 

paddock, gallop, hammer, common, 

suppose, correct, button, mutton, tunnel, 

camel, towel, hotel, axe 

wrap, written, wrong, edge, hedge, 

porridge, electric, subject, wage, hopped, 

fancy, hiding, shining, miner, spider, broken, 

blanket, punish, protect, absent, lose, loose 

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knit, knee, ugly, copy, study, lazy, dairy, 

empty, worry, marry, company, careful, 

useful, ought, fought, woman, women, 

lately, lonely, chest, chew, bench 

calf, calm, grasp, believe, thief, tomato, 

potato, weigh, eighteen, eighty, welcome, 

witch, ditch, match, butcher, newspaper, 

raw, straw, crawl, lying, swam, decade 

marble, purple, simple, candle, handle, 

jungle, bubble, paddle, battle, kettle, settle, 

whistle, stir, skirt, thirsty, autumn, cause, 

saucer, taught, daughter, straight, husband 

tow, pillow, narrow, fellow, borrow, arrow, 

except, excuse, expect, seventeen, seventy, 

glove, discover, oven, dozen, soup, group, 

either, receive, native, occur, succeed 

pour, fourth, nineteen, ninety, January, 

February, October, December, vowel, 

downstairs, plaster, key, valley, woollen, 

tonne, crept, secret, safety, reply, ourselves, 

poem, gang 

famous, dangerous, sign, sigh, burnt, 

parent, moment, movement, demand, 

clothing, worth, millilitre, hectare, 

Christmas, beauty, sixty, tyre, telephone, 

suit, ocean, plough, fasten 

rough, tough, enter, timber, thunder, rather, 

proper, grocer, offer, helicopter, desert, 

notice, police, zero, piano, radio, silent, 

sentence, idea, cruel, pear, vase 

reward, afterwards, towards, search, pearl, 

chance, balance, distance, ghost, library, 

ewe, promise, whether, journey, signal, 

though, couple, unless, ragged, remind, 

erosion, greenhouse 



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UNIT 10 

climate, chocolate, pirate, separate, 

celebrate, bandage, luggage, passage, 

brigade, trade, parade, paste, mistake, scale, 

arrange, exchange, phrase, disgrace, amaze, 

ashamed, swift, swept 

UNIT 11 

aloud, account, sour, surround, bound, 

boundary, lounge, trousers, wound, 

splendid, seldom, seek, speech, freedom, 

freeze, breeze, queer, indeed, coffee, geese, 

skill, sandwich 

UNIT 12 

missile, umpire, excite, polite, unite, alive, 

advise, exercise, roam, throat, limb, scratch, 

snatch, hatch, pitch, switch, project, 

product, tropics, donkey, machine, rubbish 

treat, repeat, beneath, seam, spear, appear, 

shear, weary, weave, disease, increase, 

peace, plastic, elastic, contest, construct, 

district, stomach, instant, cliff, bury, 

facsimile 

cherry, berry, hobby, navy, enemy, holy, 

immediately, industry, admit, splash, 

shelter, waist, obtain, contain, complain, 

explain, brain, jail, daily, tailor, tadpole, 

supply 

death, breath, heaven, meant, feather, 

wealth, palace, adult, adopt, pupil, tennis, 

linen, limit, wedding, truth, honest, practice, 

intend, inspect, fond, final, vessel 

dawn, awful, law, synthetic, prevent, 

problem, attack, traffic, result, length, fact, 

orchard, starch, harvest, partner, pardon, 

alarm, bargain, carpenter, standard, regular, 

sense 

bare, share, prepare, flow, growth, 

unknown, shadow, swallow, bullet, bomb, 

beyond, surf, surface, burst, turkey, attend, 

atom, atmosphere, angel, shovel, model, 

object 

orphan, organ, ordinary, sword, afford, 

record, support, transport, enormous, 

uniform, factory, decorate, therefore, 

explore, forward, author, metal, technology, 

cotton, dye, hero, worse 

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verb, verse, serve, environment, perform, 

perfect, merchant, mineral, several, concert, 

ambulance, modern, northern, remember, 

copper, customer, gardener, hunger, 

wander, national, member, passenger 

(to) practise, governor, government, 

understood, crew, screw, nephew, view, bathe, 

electronic, electricity, fool, stoop, goose, hoof, 

currant, current, coconut, although, 

altogether, shoulder, connect 

tube, huge, future, puncture, measure, 

furniture, failure, amuse, refuse, poison, 

disappoint, value, rescue, continue, argue, 

avenue, reduce, produce, entrance, court, 

course, virus 

aboard, cupboard, flight, virtual, lightning, 

prove, remove, sincere, global, millennium, 

channel, frozen, extra, cocoa, area, quality, 

relative, period, obey, musical, judge, cough 

circle, rifle, stable, valuable, comfortable, 

bundle, ankle, wrestle, gentle, single, 

saddle, example, squash, shower, 

wonderful, canoe, cement, caravan, chalk, 

union, region, million 

material, special, harbour, neighbour, 

honour, favour, margarine, juice, ruin, 

umbrella, collect, scene, laptop, scent, 

anxious, accident, bicycle, biscuit, senior, 

junior, annoy, faithfully 

niece, handkerchief, centre, CD Rom, 

tongue, truly, pilot, bough, graphic, 

document, garage, halves, cardigan, 

careless, knot, lettuce, bother, palm, equal, 

type, byte, repair 


UNIT 18 

sauce, communicate, sausage, question, 

composition, addition, attention, condition, 

direction, examination, position, 

population, nation, international, 

dictionary, guard, guess, guest, guide, 

southern, double, whom 

possible, horrible, article, swarm, wharf, 

violet, violin, whisper, youth, business, 

carriage, wreck, concrete, console, imagine, 

marriage, museum, barrier, yacht, neither, 

usual, experience 


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advantage, average, cottage, courage, 

package, savage, hesitate, private, 

unfortunate, operate, ecology, frame, 

purchase, advertise, habit, inhabit, level, 

gravel, sketch, stretch, display, expand 

rear, grease, eagle, cease, beast, breathe, 

league, disappear, measles, reasonable, graze, 

organise, recognise, realise, advice, provide, 

strike, fertile, crime, require, describe, habitat 

envelope, purpose, explode, cartridge, detail, 

curtain, employ, destroy, request, possess, 

poet, liquid, oxygen, knob, invent, exhibit, 

express, citizen, brass, blossom, content, 

respect 

haul, launch, laundry, exhaust, examine, 

excellent, depart, argument, parliament, 

popular, particle, complete, improve, vanish, 

false, discuss, deliver, control, continent, 

command, accept, goodness 

urgent, murder, further, furnish, disturb, 

burglar, pursuit, horrify, satisfy, occupy, terrify, 

terrific, steer, pioneer, engineer, squeeze, 

degree, success, stationery, agent, human, 

nylon 

interactive, rapid, exact, assembly, majority, 

quantity, utility, duty, interface, refinery, 

steady, jealous, weapon, blast, tarmac, 

attempt, hawk, coach, index, justice, natural, 

optical 

coarse, hoarse, kerosene, extreme, blouse, 

mount, doubt, foul, council, bounce, 

announce, incident, chemist, criminal, 

frequent, folk, horizon, probable, remarkable, 

constable, suitable, height 

fowl, tower, servant, property, liberty, clover, 

elder, fever, minister, character, chapter, 

processor, difference, entertain, angler, 

binary, mystery, observe, prayer, process, 

pretend, multimedia 

nervous, generous, marvellous, tremendous, 

visible, sensible, scramble, struggle, rattle, 

puzzle, badge, humour, labour, 

neighbourhood, suggest, progress, regret, 

reflect, represent, select, widow, hollow 

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UNIT 10 

cure, agriculture, creature, departure, 

manufacture, moisture, pasture, temperature, 

pressure, costume, perfume, tune, audience, 

automatic, event, eventually, severe, design, 

jewel, chorus, worst, clerk 

UNIT 11 

ornament, anchor, editor, mirror, inform, 

sensor, forehead, import, export, memory, 

territory, scissors, fierce, shield, mischief, 

achieve, meanwhile, theatre, pigeon, ache, 

spreadsheet, opposite 

UNIT 12 

develop, accommodation, statement, 

settlement, instrument, equipment, 

delighted, drought, depth, strength, method, 

freight, wrist, due, pursue, statue, oasis, 

science, embarrass, scone, social, siren 

UNIT 13 

elect, paraplegic, action, section, motion, 

plantation, recreation, occupation, invitation, 

irrigation, education, destination, 

conversation, association, production, 

competition, affectionate, nuisance, instance, 

substance, assistance, cereal 

UNIT 14 

curious, serious, various, victory, fashion, 

cushion, occasion, provision, division, 

decision, permission, seize, ceiling, receipt, 

route, tourist, dare, rare, spare, declare, 

pyjamas, smuggler 

UNIT 15 

wardrobe, backward, quadriplegic, physical, 

photograph, paragraph, absence, silence, 

commence, committee, independent, injure, 

disability, emotion, source, refreshment, 

athlete, vehicle, student, racism, earn, skilful 

UNIT 16 

delicious, unconscious, sponge, college, 

military, primary, necessary, secretary, 

stationary, vast, choir, volcano, mosquito, 

foreign, variety, veranda, century, scarce, 

discipline, knowledge, appreciate, intelligent 

UNIT 17 

dense, immense, gradual, annual, stereotype, 

punctual, serial, principal, expense, prejudice, 

attractive, patient, nutrition, magazine, 

medicine, system, difficult, behaviour, hymn, 

president, thorough, consider 

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nuclear, politics, fuel, quarrel, poultry, villain, 

migrant, highway, diamond, traveller, swollen, 

vacant, valve, society, occurred, onion, 

opinion, champion, religion, language, 

persuade, sufficient

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